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, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.

Position Summary:

Accountable for building and unit testing of initiative and maintenance projects as well as application production stability. This resource will be expected to work with a team of resources both onshore and offshore. This will require excellent analytical and system design skills mainframe DB2 batch environment.

Also needs focus on modernization strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
• Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities
• Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements
• Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
• Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5+ years of application programming experience
• Proficient in Cobol, VSAM, DB2 and JCL
• MVS/TSO/ISPF
• Experience with modernization strategies
• Competency in JAVA
• Knowledge of these tools or similar tools: FILE Manager, RDZ (Cobol Debugger), MS Query
• Experience with the MS Office Suite of Products (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Must have experience using Mainframe Development Tools and Version Control Software
• Excellent analytical, software design and documentation skills
• Enhance and support mainframe-based application heavy in VSAM and flat-files, with non-structured COBOL
• Has experience debugging applications in a production support role

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to work on multiple deliverables simultaneously, adhere to tight deadlines and adapt to changing priorities
• Strong organization skills
• Experience with the development models and software development lifecycle (SDLC) model, Working on Agile teams and experience with Agile is required.
• Proficiency in JIRA
• Competency with VISIO and SSRS would be a plus
• Competency in CICS would be great but not required
• Communicate effectively across varied areas including technology, business units and senior leadership
• Work on multiple projects concurrently
• Team Player
• Experience working on large scale enterprise systems
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working with virtual teams

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• User Experience Design
• Analytical Thinking
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering

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