Application Engineer

Overview

To research, evaluate, design, implement, and maintain system and product solutions, applying knowledge of engineering principles. To provide technical direction and engineering support for projects and infrastructure. Develop and maintain expert functional knowledge of evolving IT engineering industry technologies/competition, concepts and trends. Lead and own complex projects or work streams with limited supervision. Provide technical leadership to provide robust end-to-end solutions. Lead the delivery of computing services and the duties associated with cloud deliveries such as designing, planning, administering, developing, or maintaining applications in cloud-based environments.

Lead the delivery and support of mainframe computing services, including designing, implementing, automating, administering, and maintaining highly available z/OS-based applications and platform solutions.

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• Provide technical leadership to the aligned agile teams within the agile release train (ART)
  • Establish and lead project teams
  • Develop project plan/scope/schedule/cost/communications
  • Procure and/or manage resources/timelines/deadlines/quality
  • Risk, Issue and Change management
  • Ensure successful project implementation
  • Scope of responsibility
    - Broad scope
  • Actively contributing to SAFe Agile ceremonies and artifacts
• Design and implement cloud-based integration patterns using tools such as Mule Soft, Kafka, Azure integration Services
• Designing and maintaining scalable architecture, designing and coding application solutions; integrating changes with other NFCU/vendor systems, and implementing vendor SaaS solutions.
• Support and contribute to the cloud migration and platform modernization roadmap for Consumer Lending
• Collaborate with platform architects to define and implement event-driven architectures, microservices, and CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with mainframe platform and application engineers to define and implement automation, orchestration, recovery, restart, monitoring, and operational support patterns across z/OS subsystems and middleware.
• Document new system components, or modifications to existing components
• Design and implement highly available mainframe application and platform solutions in accordance with Navy Federal standards, including integration patterns connecting mainframe, cloud, distributed, and vendor systems.
• Partner with technology teams to identify and reengineer processes as applications and services onboard to or integrate with the mainframe platform.
• Develop, maintain, debug mainframe programs, jobs, procs as needed
• Analyze, modify, create new COBOL, JCL, SORT, Assembler, REXX, DB2 codes using Changeman management tool
• Use mainframe/TSO debugging tools (File Aid, $avers, JCLPLUS, Omegamon) to provide technical support to identify and resolve issues involving mainframe components
• Create or modify new or existing job schedules using ESP
• Create tickets (change ticket, DTAs, serviceNow) as needed
• Develop and maintain thorough mainframe technical documentation, including system diagrams, automation definitions, operational procedures, dependencies, and recovery processes.
• Ensure the security and integrity of system and product solutions including compliance with Navy Federal, industry engineering and Information Security principles and practices
• Perform engineering tasks and assignments in support of business needs
• Perform engineering technology research, procurement, deployment, and configuration for new and modified systems
• Lead efforts to automate and orchestrate repeatable mainframe administration and application support tasks, improving reliability, reusability, and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership in the architecture discipline and development of information technology solutions
• Present clear, organized and concise information to all audiences through a variety of media to enable effective business decisions
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Providing level 3 (development tier) support,…