Software Engineer III - COBOL Global Markets Post Trade Technology at Bank of America – Jersey City | 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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

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.

Job Profile Summary

Software Engineer III role within GM Post Trade Technology. Responsible for analysis, programming and implementation of changes in various mainframe based applications. Ability to unit test and integration test all the changes effectively. Ability to collaborate with other programmers. Works under minimal supervision, with general guidance from subject matter expert.

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)

Required Qualifications:

Programming experience with COBOL LE, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, and Online/Batch programming.
Programming experience with MQ using CICS/Cobol and Batch/Cobol.
Strong background on IBM MQ / IBM WBE
Experience with DB2 Stored Procedure a Plus
Strong skills in using File Manager and IBM Debug Tool.

Desired Qualifications:

Knowledge to use change management tool like ENDEVOR is desirable.
Knowledge to use CICS analysis and performance tool like TMON is desirable.
Knowledge to use DB2 performance tool like BMC MAINVIEW is desirable.
Soft skills required are: excellent oral and written communication skills.
Experience in the financial sector is desirable but not essential.

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

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)

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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