U.S. Bank

Software Engineer 2 (Mainframe Developer))

U.S. Bank$105K — $124K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 3-5 years of relevant experience
  • Expert-level COBOL development, debugging, and maintenance
  • Strong experience with CICS in high-volume environments
  • Advanced proficiency in JCL and PROCs
  • Deep understanding of DB2 in z/OS
  • Familiarity with modern APIs and integration patterns

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, operate, and maintain software products
  • Represent MPS in cross-functional meetings and project requests
  • Analyze and provide feedback during Technical Design and Coding reviews
  • Mentor junior developers and guide them on system components
  • Collaborate effectively with management and team members
  • Lead discussions during PI Planning and daily stand-ups
  • Create designs that adhere to architectural best practices and maximize scalability

Benefits

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
  • Life insurance options
  • Disability coverage
  • Parental leave
  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement
  • Paid vacation (2-5 weeks based on tenure)
  • Up to 11 paid holidays
  • Adoption assistance
  • Sick leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked
Full Job Description
Job Description

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 DevOps principles.

Essential Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
  • Effectively represent MPS in meetings with the business line or other system areas on projects and ServiceNow requests
  • Analyze and give feedback for a Technical Design and Coding Walk-Thru for any size project
  • Mentor Junior level developers and the business line on MPS system components and processing.
  • Work cooperatively with peers, management, and other business and system team members.
  • Give direction and drive solutions during PI Planning, story refinement, and daily stand-ups.
  • 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
  • Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
  • Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
  • Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation


Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

  • Expert-level COBOL development, debugging, and maintenance across complex mainframe applications
  • Strong experience with CICS program development and support in high-volume transaction environments
  • Advanced proficiency in JCL and PROCs creation, troubleshooting, and optimization
  • Deep understanding of DB2 development, performance tuning, and maintenance in z/OS environments
  • Familiarity with modern integration patterns, including APIs (REST/JSON) and distributed system interactions
  • Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud (compute, storage, authentication, serverless)
  • Experience with modern development tools and practices (Git, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, CI/CD pipelines)
  • Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environments and event-driven technologies such as Kafka


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

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
  • 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


Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $105,400.00 - $124,000.00

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

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