Mainframe Developer at Bank of America – Charlotte | Jobyssey

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.

Overview:

US Payments Technology is seeking a skilled mainframe developer with strong development experience to design, build, and maintain scalable, high performance web applications to join our team and work on applications that support the Account Analysis Billing & Pricing systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Cobol, CICS, JCL, DB2 and Easytrieve

The successful candidate will work on designing, building and maintaining high-priority, highly available applications.

The role will involve partnering with key stakeholders, teammates and technology management throughout the software delivery life cycle to meet business requirements. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across the mainframe technology stack, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions.

This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to industry and design and architectural patterns.

Responsibilities:

Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack
Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
Automates manual release activities
Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)
Responsible for developing and delivering complex software requirements
Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
Design develop and maintain End to End mainframe-based applications using COBOL, CICS and relevant technologies.
Collaborate closely with product managers, teammates and other engineering teams to satisfy requirements and deliver highly performant resilient applications.
Participate in Agile development cadences and CI/CD pipelines
Provide Level 3 support for the Account Analysis Billing & Pricing applications
Stay current with technologies and propose improvements to tools, processes, and architecture

Required Qualifications:

The successful candidate will be expected to Experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle/ Software Testing Life Cycle (SDLC/STLC) and their interrelationships.

10+ years of mainframe development experience using CICS, COBOL, DB2
Proficient in JCL, Endevor, VSAM, Easytrieve+
Proficient in mainframe assembly language
Good understanding of NDM & SFTP
Ability to work in an Agile development environment & working knowledge of Jira
Excellent communication skills.
Motivated, Self-Starter, Organized and ability to work independently
Strong problem solving and analytical skills
Able to work in a separate location and time zones from other team members and meet goals

Desired Qualifications:

Knowledge of Unix Scripting and Oracle PLSQL
CA7 Job scheduler, SAS
Z/VM and NOMAD operating Environment
Knowledge of Application development using alternate tech stacks like Java or Python, Oracle or NoSQL MongoDB
2+ years of relevant work experience
Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the role

Skills:

Application Development
Automation
Influence
Solution Design
Technical Strategy Development
Architecture
Business Acumen
DevOps Practices
Result Orientation
Solution Delivery Process
Analytical Thinking
Collaboration
Data Management
Risk Management
Test Engineering

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$102,900.00 - $179,900.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.

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