Mainframe Staff Software Engineer

Kohl’s; Menomonee Falls (WI); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in retail is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive development and improvement of product capabilities. This fully remote position requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 5 years of experience. The role involves application design, lifecycle management, and establishing engineering standards.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in software development or related occupation.
• Experience with application design patterns and event-driven architecture.
• Knowledge of full SDLC processes and database design.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality applications and manage the product application lifecycle.
• Establish product engineering and software standards.
• Leverage best practices to achieve business outcomes.

Skills

Critical thinking

Experimentation

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering

Tools

COBOL

JCL

DB2

MQ

VSAM

CICS

Jira

Job description

100% telecommute position. May work remotely or telecommute to company

HQ in Menomonee Falls, WI.

Job Duties:
• Drives development, testing, deployments, and iterative improvement of product capabilities and features in collaboration with designers, product managers, and other engineers on the product team.
• Leverages critical thinking, experimentation, data, and industry best practices to implement desired business outcomes.
• Develops high quality applications that are secure, easy to operate, difficult to break, and extremely observable with measurable results.
• Responsible for all technical aspects of the product application lifecycle including, code, infrastructure, data, security, and CICD.
• Establishes product engineering and software standards.
• Continuously develops self and demonstrates a strong knowledge of new technologies, modern application architecture, and industry best practices.

Required Minimum Position Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field of study; and 5 years of experience in the job offered or any related occupation in which the required experience was gained.

Position also requires demonstrated experience in the following:
• Application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas, and testing strategies.
• Large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Continuous integration, deployment, and test-driven development of mainframe business applications.
• Development of integration frameworks and platforms including MQ, Oracle, sFTP, VSAM, Bizlink, EDI,
ConnectDirect.
• Full SDLC requirements gathering, planning, estimation, development, testing, and deployment.
• Database design and implementation for building mainframe business applications and integrations to
distributed systems.
• Leveraging critical thinking, experimentation, data, and industry best practices to implement desired business
outcomes.
• Development of high quality business applications that are secure, easy to operate, difficult to break, and
extremely observable with measurable results.
• Establishment of product engineering and software standards.
• COBOL, JCL, TSO/ISPF, DB2, MQ, VSAM, RDS, Mobius, Jira, and CICS.

To Apply: Mail resume to N56 W17000 Ridgewood Dr., Menomonee Falls, WI 53051, ATTN: Jenna Schlintz, Ref.
Job Title, or, online at https://careers.kohls.com/.

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