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Software Engineer (1) - Established Senior Engineer #1035503
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities:
Skills Required:
Experience Required:
Experience Preferred:
Education Required:
Additional Information :
Job Description:
- Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, developing, testing and maintaining software applications and products to meet customer needs.
- They are involved in the entire software development lifecycle including designing software architecture, writing code, testing for quality and deploying the software to meet customer requirements.
- Full-stack software engineering roles, who can develop all components of software including user interface and server side also fall within this job function.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage with customers to deeply understand their use-cases, pain points, and requirements, showcasing empathy and advocating for user-centric software solutions
- Solve complex problems by designing, developing, and delivering using various tools, languages, frameworks, methodologies (like agile) and technologies
- Assess the requirements of the software application or service and determine the most suitable technology stack, integration method, deployment strategy, etc.
- Create high-level software architecture designs that outline the overall structure, components, and interfaces of the application
- Collaborate with cross functional teams like product owners, designers, architects etc.
- Define and implement software test strategy, guidelines, policies and processes in line with organization vision, industry regulations and market best practices.
- Work on continuously improving performance and optimizing the application and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
- Familiar with programming practices, such as test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
- Support security practices to safeguard user data including encryption and anonymization.
- Create user-friendly and interactive interfaces
- Develop and maintain back-end applications like APIs and microservices using server-side languages
- Evaluate and incorporate emerging technologies and capabilities to deliver their solutions, and are monitoring and participating in solutions for new stack layers, often involving industry collaboration
Skills Required:
- DB2, Big Query,, COBOL, IMS, JCL
Experience Required:
- Senior Engineer Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang.; guides.
- 10+ years in IT; 8+ years in development
Experience Preferred:
- Willingness to assist and troubleshoot current Mainframe environment, participating in production support/pager duty rotation, including weekend and off-hour support coverage ·
- Experience with Jira, backlogs, iterations, user stories, or similar Agile Tools
- Highly effective in working with other Mainframe Engineering and DBA technical specialists, Product Managers, and business partners
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills ·
- Ability to manage changing priorities
Education Required:
- Bachelor's Degree
Additional Information :
- Ability to design, develop and maintain Mainframe COBOL & JCL to meet support and/or project requirements
- Experience using source code management tools such as Endevor and GitHub
- Quick starter to troubleshoot/resolve incidents and business support items
- Ability to perform application support tasks: systems support, security/audit reviews, and maintenance tasks
- Willingness to assist and troubleshoot current Mainframe environment, participating in production support/pager duty rotation, including weekend and off-hour support coverage
- Experience with CA Agile Central (Rally), backlogs, iterations, user stories, or similar Agile Tools
- Highly effective in working with other Mainframe Engineering and DBA technical specialists, Product Managers, and business partners
- Ability to multi-task effectively and prioritize work based on business impact and urgency