Software Engineer III

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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success.

This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

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, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.

The Senior Mainframe Application Developer is a critical member of the application development team, responsible for the design, development, maintenance, and support of business-critical mainframe applications. This role requires deep expertise in legacy platform technologies, strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, and the ability to ensure the stability, reliability, and ongoing enhancement of complex systems that support key business functions.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• These application program solutions may involve diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technologies and tools
• May provide technical direction and system architecture for individual initiatives
• Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource. Will not have direct reports but may lead projects and direct activities of a team related to special initiatives or operations.
• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
• Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack
• Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Automates manual release activities
• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of mainframe development experience using COBOL, VSAM, DB2
• Proficient in JCL, Endevor, Easytrieve+

• Proficient in mainframe assembly language

• Good understanding of NDM & SFTP

• Ability to work in an Agile development environment & working knowledge of Jira

• Excellent communication skills.

• Motivated, Self-Starter, Organized and ability to work independently

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

• Able to work in a separate location and time zones from other team members and meet goals
• Successful candidate will be expected to have experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle/ Software Testing Life Cycle (SDLC/STLC) and their interrelationships

Desired Qualifications:

• 2+ years of relevant work experience
• Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the role
• Ability to work on multiple deliverables simultaneously, adhere to tight deadlines and adapt to changing priorities
• Strong organization skills
• Communicate effectively across varied areas including technology, business units and senior leadership
• Experience working on large scale enterprise systems
• Knowledge of Unix Scripting and Oracle PLSQL
• Knowledge of Application development using alternate tech stacks like Java or Python, Oracle or NoSQL MongoDB

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40