Sr Engineer - COBOL

## Sr Engineer - COBOLApplylocations:
MN - Minneapolis time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
REQ-47719

As a Sr COBOL Software Engineer, you will be considered a technical expert in one or more phases of application and/or systems engineering. This role supports Thrivent’s Annuity Policy Servicing & Maintenance (APSM) product area and focuses on the design, development, modernization, and support of business-critical annuity policy administration solutions. You will provide technical leadership for COBOL-based enterprise applications and mainframe technologies, partnering with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver stable, scalable, and reliable servicing capabilities.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience developing, enhancing, and supporting complex business processing systems, insurance policy administration platforms, and mission-critical production environments.

Experience with DXC insurance platforms and products, including wmA, is highly desirable.
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* DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

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* ** Designing Solutions
*** Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers
* Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy  
** Developing Software
*** Works independently and collaboratively with the team to develop core software solutions that deliver business outcomes
* Consistently delivers software that meets or exceeds team expectations for stability, scalability, resilience, and maintainability
* Design, develop, maintain, and support COBOL applications that enable annuity servicing, policy maintenance, and policy administration capabilities
* Analyze business requirements, system behavior, and production issues to deliver reliable software solutions for complex policy administration processes
* Support modernization efforts by helping integrate mainframe applications with APIs, data services, event-driven patterns, and other distributed technologies  
** Learning and Applying New Techniques
*** Shares new ideas and techniques with team;
Encourages junior engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job  
** Collaborating within the Team
*** Participate in team’s collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblock for the team
* Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps team to understand and decompose work  
** Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns
*** Contribute to develop engineering practices, templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team  
** Dev Ops
* ** Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software;
Use data to measure progress
* Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process
* Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems  
** Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors
*** Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors
* Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor  
** Coaching Engineers
*** Provide training, mentoring, technical guidance, and domain expertise to junior engineers to accelerate their growth and effectiveness
* Provide technical expertise and help the team to solve technical/software issues
* Provide domain expertise on software products in their area to junior engineers to help them learn/grow their skills and contribute as part of the team  
** Recruiting/Building Talent
*** Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market
* Participate in the interview process or be part of the panel to recruit the right talent to the team
* Contribute to the recruitment to define the structure of the interview process to hire the right talent to the team.
* Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.  
* Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are…