Engineer II

Job Purpose

The MSP development community is the heart of MSP Mortgage Technology.  Our focus is to enhance, maintain, and support both internal and client-facing MSP functionality through efficiencies, and associated processes that drive improvements which grow, protect and preserve the integrity of MSP for our clients.

The MSP development teams work closely with internal support groups, business analysts, across teams/members to understand business requirements that foster the analysis, design, and implementation of quality technical Mortgage solutions. These solutions must be aligned with business and IT strategies that comply with the organization’s architectural standards. Involvement includes full (SDLC) architecture including design, coding, testing, implementation, maintenance, and support of applications software delivered on time and within budget. Responsibilities may also include participation in component and data architecture design with a solid understanding of systems analysis, design, development, quality assurance and integration methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Interpret, write new, and/or modify existing COBOL Batch and CICS programs timely and efficiently according to business requirements and documented standards.
• Familiarity with in-house source-code tools, development tools, development, testing, and implementation processes and procedures.
• Able to collaborate with peers, teams, and departments successfully and respectfully.
• Able to research, analyze, strategize, formulate, problem solve, and implement coding solutions within expected timelines.
• May serve as technical lead, architect, project lead or principal developer.
• May provide or guide provision of technical support to applications currently in production.
• May mentor or guide work of less experienced programming and development staff.
• Secondary Production support in on-call rotation.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
• 5+ years  z/OS mainframe application development technologies such as Batch/CICS COBOL, JCL, IDz, ISPW, REXX, TSO; Java/Java plug-ins, Assembler, C* are a plus.
• Excellent analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills - ability to foresee problems, identify/implement solutions that are reliable, scalable, and efficient where applicable.
• Excellent leadership skills (defined as the ability to influence or induce others in a direction, course, action, or opinion to produce positive results for the organization or a client).
• Ability to communicate well to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Results oriented, business focused, and successful at interfacing across multiple organizational units.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently with little guidance or formal training.
• Ability to identify opportunities to create, improve or enhance tools and processes to improve productivity and help minimize Production risk.
• Performs well under pressure/time constraints.
• Adaptable, Approachable, able to give/take direction.
• Continual learner.
• Mortgage/MSP knowledge and understanding of FM a plus.
• Familiarity with FM/MSP production job flows and processes a plus.
• Languages:
  • COBOL for Z/OS, CICS;   IDz, (C*, Assembler, JCL, REXX a plus).
  • VSAM/DB2 file structures, ISPW source code/release management
  • IDZ, TSO/ISPF mainframe IDE’s interfaces
  • Utilities (IDCAMS, FILEAID, XPEDITER, QUIKJOB) , LIBRARIAN, RDZ - Rational Suite)
  • MS Office (WORD, EXCEL, PowerPoint, Visio)