Mainframe Developer

Motion Recruitment
  • MINNEAPOLIS, MN
    3 days ago

    Job Description

    Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Software Engineer in Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid).

    Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

    Contract Duration: 18 Months

    Required Skills & Experience
    • 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
    • Strong COBOL development experience in a mainframe environment (most critical skill)
    • Understand and have worked with VSAM extensively.
    • Experience maintaining and enhancing legacy, highly customized mainframe applications
    • Solid understanding of JCL (for batch processing)
    • Experience working in an Agile environment
    • Strong communication skills and ability to work with product and business stakeholders
    • Ability and willingness to mentor junior engineers
    • Banking/ financial services experience will be very key for this role
    • Specific experience and understanding of how account numbers, check numbers, routing, etc. break down interact and breakdown inside Cobol)
    • Understanding of how those items track and interact internally
    • Deposit tracking, fraud, etc. in finance experience is also nice
    Desired Skills & Experience
    • ServiceNow experience for incident, change, or problem management
    • Experience supporting batch heavy overnight processing
    • Background working in financial services or regulated environments
    • Prior experience on long lived, business critical systems with complex integrations

    What You Will Be Doing
    • Consult on or participate in moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within Software Engineering and contribute to large-scale planning related to Software Engineering deliverables.
    • Review and analyze moderately complex Software Engineering challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
    • Contribute to the resolution of moderately complex issues and consult with others to meet Software Engineering deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
    • Collaborate with client personnel in Software Engineering.
    • Support and maintain the Data Distributor, NOVA and SD applications in the Core Deposits team in MN.
    • Modify existing COBOL programs to meet product and business requirements (enhancements, fixes, regulatory updates)
    • Validate and distribute data to Hogan IDS, including nightly batch processing
    • Develop and maintain JCL for batch jobs and production workflows
    • Perform testing, validation, and production deployments following client change processes
    • Participate in Agile ceremonies and collaborate with product partners
    • Support production issues and contribute to application stability
    • Mentor and help train junior engineers on Hogan and mainframe best practices

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationMINNEAPOLIS, MN

    Skills

    • Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Banking Servicesunmatched
    • Business Solutionsunmatched
    • Cobol Programming Languageunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Consultingunmatched
    • Customer Satisfactionunmatched
    • Data Qualityunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Financial Servicesunmatched
    • Intrusion Detection Systemsunmatched
    • JCL (Job Control Language)unmatched
    • Mainframe Computerunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Product Programsunmatched
    • Production Supportunmatched
    • Regulationsunmatched
    • Regulatory Complianceunmatched
    • ServiceNowunmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched
    • System Integration (SI)unmatched
    • Testingunmatched
    • Validation Testingunmatched

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