Software Engineer ; Mainframe – Cobol

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career.

Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self‑motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and Dev Ops principles.

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products

• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production‑ready and testable code

• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs

• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements

• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront

• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards

• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures

• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices

• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards

• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation

• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement

• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience

• Three to five years of relevant experience

• Strong hands on experience in mainframe programming and systems architecture .

• Proven expertise in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, and CICS .

• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, and Dev Op s practices.

• Experience with
  architectural modeling, workflow analysis, and performance tuning .

• Excellent a nalytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Ability to mentor junior developers and provide technical guidance across teams.

• Experience with
  cross-functional planning, code reviews, and quality assurance activities.

• Subject matter expert in mainframe development and architecture.

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants  .

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer‑funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

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