Job Description
Our client, a Fortune 500 company, is looking for a Sr Software Engineer - Mainframe & Distributed Systems, to join their team! We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is primarily a mainframe developer with knowledge and experience in distributed application development and support. The ideal candidate embraces Continuous Integration/Delivery, follows engineering best practices, and is passionate about innovation in the trading technology space.
***This would be a 12+ contract with chance to convert(if interested)
Responsibilities:
- Build and deliver high-quality, maintainable software solutions in an Agile environment
- Ensure solutions meet both functional and non-functional business requirements
- Contribute to engineering best practices, including code reviews, cloud strategy, and CI/CD improvements
- Clearly communicate technical solutions and ideas to stakeholders across all levels
- Develop a strong understanding of the business domain and contribute meaningfully to technical discussions with both internal and external partners
- Continuously research and recommend modern tools and creative practices to drive innovation within the team
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong knowledge of: CICS (including Dynamic Transaction Routing), COBOL, DB2 (or DBZ), VSAM, JCL
- Familiarity with mainframe and DB2 tools such as File-AID, debuggers, and job schedulers
- Exposure to the Brokerage/Finance domain especially brokerage and margin products
- Experience working with highly transactional, fault-tolerant, and data-driven systems
- Ability to identify and mitigate technical risks; coach junior staff when needed
- Comfortable collaborating across distributed/global teams
- Strong problem diagnosis and troubleshooting skills
- On-call rotation experience
Nice to have:
- Basic understanding of Sprint Boot or similar frameworks
- Basic understanding of Python
- Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript & RESTful APIs
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