Mainframe Developer

Contract Duration: 3 months with very strong possibility of extension or contract to hire (based on performance)

Deliver high quality software and technical solutions in an agile environment to meet internal business partner and end customer requirements. Fluent across the full stack and coach's other software engineers to promote a flexible mindset and develop technical competence. In this hands-on role, the Software Engineer will be working with the Product Owner, Scrum Master, Software Engineers, Business Analysts, business stakeholders and project managers to understand the requirements, formulate technical designs, and implement and test solutions to ensure compliance to requirements and technical standards.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of enterprise application solutions

• Considered an expert in assigned development stream

• Design and lead the implementation of business requirements and IT strategies, as well as to rectify gaps and pain points within the current state

• Leverages strong understanding of business to develop high quality code to meet business/customer requirements

• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with other product owners, scrum masters, software engineers, business users, project managers and customers to achieve solutions that meet business expectations.

• Work alongside other software engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.

• Adheres to architecture standards and development best practices like Test-Driven development, code reviews, static code analysis and secure coding

• Writes technical user stories and ensures that non-functional requirements are met to ensure performance, scaling, resilience and maintainability of software/solutions

• Actively resolves defects and manages technical debt

• Develop and execute unit tests to ensure business/customer requirements are delivered

• Participates in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives to enable progress, and surface and resolve impediments

• Evaluates emerging technologies continually to identify opportunities, trends and best practices to strengthen development practices

• Collaborates with the team to support end-to-end including design, development, QA, deployment and production support

• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.

• Test software development methodology in an agile environment.

• Is willing to work safely with minimal environmental impact and understands the importance of reporting all hazards, incidents, and environmental spills immediately to their Supervisor.

• Understands that they play an integral role in their own safety and that of their colleagues and is willing to speak out when hazards are present

Key soft skills:

• High level of innovation and creative thinking required to deliver technical solutions and provide production support for business related system issue to the business and customers

• This job requires a complex level of problem solving related to technical business issues and business process opportunities.

• No direct reports, individual contributor to Technology but will play a mentor role with junior software engineers

• Excellent customer service skills are a requirement, both written and verbal. Works with internal business partners, external customers, and 3rd party vendors

• Able to work in a changing and fast paced environment

• Pace of work is often dictated by the business and our customers that results in aggressive timelines to deliver solutions or defects

Technical skills and experience required:

• Minimum 5 years' of IT experience

Experience using:

o AS400 – RPG, CL, DB2, ILE and SQL or

o Knowledge on relational databases and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Aurora

• Experience using frameworks including Open Source Software

• Experience with version control systems for the appropriate technology stack

• Experience with test driven development (TDD)

• Experience with other development languages or scripts is a plus

• Experience configuring/administering application servers is preferred

• Experience in Distribution environment is preferred

• Ability to work in a constantly changing, fast-paced environment

• Extremely detail-oriented, fast learner and the ability to handle multiple tasks