Software Engineer Associate- Mainframe

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

119d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Software Engineer Associate, you will contribute to developing world-class digital solutions and user experiences, creating and sustaining systems that support millions of Scotiabank customer transactions every day. We are looking to fill our team with creators who are genuinely collaborative, flexible, curious, versatile, and above driven to deliver excellent client outcomes. By joining our team, you will directly impact our customers and partners within the Canadian banking industry.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related discipline is preferred.
• 3-5 years of technical work experience in systems analysis, design, development, unit testing, and debugging.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively liaise between Business Users, Project Teams, external Vendors and Technical Support Teams working in a geographically dispersed team.
• In-depth knowledge of SDLC methodology and technical working experience in an agile environment.
• Comprehensive experience in mainframe development complex programs using Cobol, JCL, IMS DB, DB2, VSAM, CA7, SAS, Netron.
• Experience working in an agile environment / methodology / deployment (e.g. GIT, DevOps pipeline, JIRA, Confluence).
• Experience with Security and environment control systems (Endevor, ACF2), Database Management (e.g. IMS, DB2, VSAM, Informix).
• Development techniques, such as debugging, testing, coding, documentation, and use of productivity tools.
• AIX / UNIX Command line expertise and shell script programming is required.
• Understanding of File Transfer protocols and processes ie. FTP, SFTP, PGP Encryption.
• Understanding mainframe integration for ETL processing.
• Experience with change management and version control.
• Knowledge and understanding of Web Services.
• Experience in writing/creating/updating technical documents.
• Experience in batch job/process scheduling.
• An understanding of current IT practices and systems development techniques.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in banking industry is an asset.
• Some knowledge of one or more of Java, Spring Boot, DB2, SQL, microservice architecture would be a differentiating asset.

Responsibilities

• Provide system analysis, design / programming, technical documentation, and support for existing and new applications and systems.
• Work with project team to refine technical requirements and build the technical design and guidance based on the bank’s enterprise architecture standards.
• Perform coding, unit testing, debugging, documenting, and implementing applications and scripts.
• Create estimates and planning of development efforts required for various projects and enhancements.
• Maintain, support, and enhance existing applications.
• Participate in regular code reviews for release activities.
• Work on the implementation of code to non-production and production environments.
• Take a lead role in production issue analysis and perform root cause analysis for production issues and implementation issues.
• Provide recommendations on best practices and enhancements that are in line with the bank’s technology road map.
• Work with the product owners and business analysts in discovering the current system behavior and provide recommendations on improving the current system.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursue effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Champion a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days, and benefits will start on day one.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level