Mainframe COBOL Software Engineer III (Finance)

JOB SUMMARY

Who you are:

You are a reliable and collaborative IT professional who ensures business applications are stable, secure, and always available. With experience in IBM mainframe systems, you are skilled at solving production issues, reviewing code for quality, and supporting key business areas such as Collections, Contact Center Operations, and Finance.

In this role, you will be a key technical resource-consulting with end users, IT Business Analysts, and stakeholders to support and enhance mainframe applications that power essential functions such as Collections, Contact Center Operations, Default Recovery Services, and Finance. You are someone who values precision, enjoys problem-solving, and is committed to delivering reliable, high-quality solutions that keep business operations running smoothly.

Who we are:

Trellis Company is a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation focused on helping people leverage the power of post-secondary education and learning to improve their quality of life and the communities where they live.

For more than 40 years Trellis has served as a student loan guarantor, helping to provide trusted guidance and services that help student borrowers successfully repay their federal loans. In addition to pioneering several technologies and services along the way, we have invested in improving student success programs through numerous grants to colleges, universities, and research groups.

Today we have expanded our services beyond higher education to include working with employers and community organizations who are focused on aligning the dreams, goals, and skills needs of employees and employers. Connecting these resources and learning pathways together with our expertise in improving student outcomes helps us all to create better and more predictable futures for those we serve.

Our stability and vision create a unique intersection: a startup environment at a company that also has a stable foundation, resulting in an opportunity for the right candidate to help shape our company's future. This is an exciting time to join the Trellis team!

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The position incumbent is expected to perform the following essential duties and responsibilities of the position with reasonable accommodation.

• Business and Technical interactions/communication - Work with business and IT teams collaboratively and communicate verbally and in writing clearly using business as well as technical terms.
• Project planning and estimating - Identify the project milestones, estimating the effort and prepare action tasks.
• Research and Analysis - Performs project analysis, root cause analysis of prod issues, design solutions, identify implementation steps.
• Programming- program the solutions, perform walkthroughs and prepare migration packages
• Testing - Unit testing, System & User Acceptance testing, and Production Smoke testing upon implementation.
• Deployment - Prepare deployment plan, run instructions, get required business approvals for implementation, submit prod implementation packages to operations team.
• Support - Participate in on-call rotation supporting batch and online processing; monitor systems; respond to customer application needs.
• Documentation - Create/update the business and application specifications, processes and procedures.

NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintains and advances professional technical and business application knowledge.
• Assist with special projects as assigned.
• Must be available to work flexible hours.
• Supports other functions and responsibilities of the departments.
• Interacts with all levels of management as necessary.
• Contributes to the development of strategic initiatives.
• Assist with special projects as assigned.
• All other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

COMPETENCIES

• Action Oriented
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Compliance
• Customer Focus
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness
• Diversity Focused

• Relationship Management
• Resourcefulness
• Self-Development
• Situational Adaptability
• Strategic Mindset
• Tech Savvy

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Utilizes change management approaches.

• Works effectively either independently or in a team environment.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with peers, professionals, and other management team members.
• Quickly learns and applies new ideas and materials.
• Communicates clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing, in a courteous and polite manner.
• Simultaneously handles several concurrent activities.
• Possesses working knowledge of database operations and application security fundamentals.
• Possesses basic understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Ability to produce effective documentation for all phases of application development and support.
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of information technology concepts and trends.
• Ability to effectively communicate functional and technical topics at multiple levels within an organization.
• Proven ability to apply modern technology to complex problems.
• Possesses awareness of non-public information (NPI) privacy safeguards.
• Manages project and schedule time constraints and priorities.
• Proven analytical and complex problem-solving ability

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Experience in the information technology field may be substituted for a degree, or in combination with college courses or a technology certification, on a year-for-year basis.

Experience

Required:

• Four (4) or more years of experience serving in increasingly responsible roles with IBM mainframe applications development, testing, and production support.
• Strong technical experience with COBOL II, CICS, DB2, Z/OS, VSAM, TSO, Syncsort, DB2 utilities, JCL, and IBM Utilities and related mainframe technologies.
• Maintaining and debugging of CICS applications, Cobol batch processing and DB2 stored procedures.
• Knowledge of Top Secret in mainframe applications IAM and application-level security controls.
• Proficiency with both batch and online processing in mainframe environment
• In-depth experience in SQL queries, database operations and reporting
• Must have participated in application on-call support rotation

Preferred:

• Experience converting mainframe Cobol applications to modern distributed applications using Java, Python etc.
• Knowledge of IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI), Watson Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) or other AI based tools for code generation and code conversion
• Experience with IBM development/testing utilities, BMC Control products.
• Change Management, Control-D reports
• Knowledge of FFEL program, student loan applications.
• Possess awareness of non-public information (NPI) privacy safeguards.

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMANDS

• Occasionally must move about when working inside the office.
• Repetitive motion. Regularly operates a computer, phone, and general office equipment.
• Regularly required to handle, feel, grasp objects and reach across a work area.
• Regularly communicates with other employees and on the phone, virtually, or in person with clients. Regularly converses with internal and external contacts.
• Visual acuity. Regularly must have close visual acuity to view and enter information into computer and software systems, analyze data, develop presentations and reports, and other materials.
• Mental focus. Requires worker to maintain focus and exchange detailed and accurate information through oral and written communication.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Work may be conducted remotely, hybrid or in an office with a surrounding small cubicle environment.
• Must participate in on-call rotation in support of Trellis applications.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity or sexual orientation. We are also an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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