Mainframe Software Engineer

Hybrid Work Model- Van Wert or Dublin, OH

Technology plays a crucial role in our ability to deliver best-in-class insurance products. We are currently seeking a Mainframe Software Engineer that will be responsible for supporting design and implementation to add features and resolve bugs by serving as an individual contributor to the development team.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Writes code, arch documents, and contributes to policy standards and owns their individual contributions to software applications development efforts; meets project deliverables by collaborating with engineering, product managers, and other departments.
• Analyzes design and determines coding, programming, and integration activities required based on general objectives and knowledge of overall architecture of product or solution
• Collaborates and communicates with management, internal, and outsourced development partners regarding software applications design status, project progress, and issue resolution
• Writes code with testability, readability, completeness and efficiency in mind. Must refer to the team policies or standards for initial guidance. Provides support to junior engineers by providing education on standards, tools, techniques and patterns used within the team and the domain.
• Executes and writes portions of testing plans, protocols, and documentation for assigned portion of application; identifies and debugs issues with code and suggests changes or improvements to the testing approach, CI/CD pipelines, or software delivery process.
• Writes unit-tests, integration tests, schema verification tests as appropriate. Provides feedback to junior engineers on how to organize code to be more testable.
• Provides feedback to senior engineers and engineering managers on what to include within a policy or standard for the team.
• Designs basic functionality on top of existing patterns and approaches and is mindful of introducing breaking changes. Should communicate such breaking changes to the team and to stakeholders based on patterns established within the teams
• Can choose between new patterns and techniques, with minimal guidance from senior engineers.
• Can communicate trade-offs team members when choosing between different approaches to designs.
• Understands the importance of security, and works with policies and tools from the security team to work within compliance. Raises issues to senior engineers during the design phase.
• Collaborates with the engineering team and other stakeholders to implement changes and seeks feedback to verify that implemented features are operating as expected.
• Communicates daily with engineers on the team to keep others aware of progress. Will pair-program as appropriate based on the team expectations.
• Actively seeks feedback from more senior engineers through mechanisms like pair-programming, peer-review, RFC-based development, stand-ups or other means.
• Coaches newer engineers on team norms, processes and documentation.
• Conducts peer-review for newer engineers and provides feedback or raises questions on code commits.
• Knows the tools, techniques and processes that are used within the team to deliver within their context and can help onboard newer engineers and provide information on how they are to be used.
• Contributes to conversations on organizational processes and provides feedback to teammates on what is working and what hinders development.
• Is able to create a systematic approach to debugging a problem independent of guidance from senior engineers.
• Is aware of the organization's monitoring philosophy and the operational data for their team's domain.
• Participates as a member of project team of other software applications engineers and internal and outsourced development partners to develop reliable, cost effective and high-quality solutions for assigned applications portion or subsystem
• Collaborates and communicates with internal and outsourced development partners regarding software applications design status, project progress, and issue resolution.
• Collaborates with the engineering team and other stakeholders to implement changes and seeks feedback to verify that implemented features are operating as expected.
• Communicates daily with engineers on the team to keep others aware of progress. Will pair-program as appropriate based on the team expectations.
• Actively seeks feedback from more senior engineers through mechanisms like pair-programming, peer-review, RFC-based development, stand-ups or other means.
• Develops understanding of and relationship with internal and outsourced development partners on software applications design and development
• Learns about the team's role in the value chain within the business unit.
• Understands the utility of the system(s) supported by the team and learns about the users' pain points through conversations with senior engineers and product managers. Uses this knowledge to make implementation decisions.

What You Will Bring

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 2 years related experience
  • Or 4 years related experience
• Strong technical knowledge of complex software systems, including enterprise, middleware, firmware, and embedded systems and cloud-native design patterns
• Adept at collecting and analyzing input from multiple sources (customers, sales, engineering, marketing, competitor, and management)
• Significant experience in software development, systems engineering, software General
• Experience specifically in deploying, optimizing, and maintaining software preferred
• Using software applications design tools and languages such as Java, SQL, .NET, and Go, or C
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Designing software applications running on multiple platform types
• Software applications testing methodology, including writing and execution of test plans, debugging, and testing scripts and tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at management levels

Preferred Qualifications

• You are either a front-end specialist or well-versed in effective service oriented architecture patterns
• Mainframe Technologies: Proficiency in mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL (Job Control Language), CICS (Customer Information Control System), DB2, VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method), and z/OS.
• Programming Languages: Strong command over programming languages used in mainframe environments such as COBOL and SQL.
• Database Management: Proficiency in working with mainframe DB2, including SQL querying and database design principles, and BMC AMI Command Center/Data Studio.
• Mainframe Development Tools: Familiarity with other development lifecycle management tools specific to mainframes.

Work Authorization

Central will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Central that all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, job classification and assignment, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment and all other terms and conditions of employment shall be maintained in a manner which will not discriminate against any person because of race, color, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, religion, marital status, military status, or disability. The applicant should respond to questions on this application in a way that will not divulge such information.

Other details

• Job Family IT-Software Engineering

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