Senior Technical Lead / Mainframe Principal

Job Description

This role could be hybrid or remote based on proximity to an office location.

At Ameritas, our mission is Fulfilling Life. We do that in many ways, but especially by helping people invest in themselves by offering trusted financial products and advice. Because we believe everyone should be happy, healthy, and financially secure, we work hard to provide trusted financial products and valued guidance, including individual life and disability insurance, employee benefits, retirement planning, investments, and wealth management services.

Seeking aSenior Technical Leadto drive the business by designing, modifying, and developing systems using advanced techniques. Analyze current systems to resolve new and/or existing problems. Evaluate the technical feasibility of proposed system solutions. Prepare project proposals while developing and modifying systems to meet the business need. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead or direct the work of other developers/projects. This position cultivates analysis and development skills by learning new and emerging technologies.

What you do

• Responsible for providing the highest level of technical leadership and application architecture, through advising, consulting, or leading application prototypes and proof of concepts in support of application development projects.
• Leverage technology advances through tactical and strategic technology solutions, reference architectures, frameworks, and components
• Participates in COBOL coding and code reviews; SQL statements, batch job, and online task (CICS, Relational Database, MQSeries / WebSphere) optimization, schedule adjustments, database tuning
• Participates in continual team backlog refinement and prioritization
• Exhibits strong skills in collaboration, influencing, and mentoring other team members in the listed technologies
• Takes on other roles as needed including development, testing, and automation to support the team as needed to meet sprint and product goals
• Participates in the development of improved and innovative ways to utilize current system software, application system development, and programming productivity aids, including debugging and test tools
• Investigates and recommends new methods, procedures, tools, and technologies
• Performs at a high level of technical capability while developing or maintaining application systems within a self-organizing and self-managing environment
• Collaborates with IT management, EA, BA, and team members and to evaluate, design, and provide technical solutions that support the ongoing development of the product
• Dedicated to continuous improvement and learning for the product and as an individual
• Troubleshoot and solve problems with strong debugging skills
• Estimate development effort based on documented business requirements
• Clearly communicate and train others on design decisions and tradeoffs
• Quickly learn, train, and practically apply new concepts or principles
• Work effectively both independently and in a team environment
• Share knowledge and champion best practices.

What you bring

• 7+ years of experiences working in large scale mainframe CICS, COBOL, Relational Database complex environments required
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Excellent working Knowledge of CICS, DB2, COBOL, and MQ required
• Working knowledge of SOA and API Architecture and the ability to train and guide other developers on these concepts. Experience developing mainframe service programs to communicate with Open-Source front end systems/API
• Experience with various TCP/IP Mainframe networking configurations
• Experience with Scrum Agile software development methodologies
• Working knowledge of CICS Channel and Container preferred
• Experience with the full stack of software development preferred
• Backend (RESTful API) knowledge preferred
• Experience migrating legacy applications to modern architecture preferred
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (Amazon AWS or similar) preferred
• Experience in modern security practices preferred

What we offer

• Our company motto is "Fulfilling Life" and we take that job seriously, with a heavy commitment to volunteering and community support, employee well-being, and providing quality products and services that help our customers create a brighter future.
• Being a mutual-based organization, the return on our investment goesback into the company, to benefit our members/customers.
• We're committed to professional development, opportunity, inclusion, and diversity. Team building and collaboration are also priorities.
• A total rewards package with all the comprehensive health and welfare benefits you'd expect, including competitive pay and incentives, 401(k), flexible work schedules and time off to care for yourself and others.
• Additional popular benefits, including tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment, an incentivized well-being program, adoption assistance, paid time off for volunteering, training, and career development opportunities.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Ameritas has a reputation as a company that cares, and because everyone should feel safe bringing their authentic, whole self to work, we're committed to an inclusive culture and diverse workplace, enriched by our individual differences.We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that hires based on qualifications, positive attitude, and exemplary work ethic, regardless of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Salary range $96,422 to $154,276 per year

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