Senior Mainframe Engineer (Remote)

Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

As Senior Mainframe Engineer, you will collaborate closely with design, product and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate Kohl’s retail offerings. 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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 CI/CD

• Establishes product engineering and software standards

• Continuously develops self and demonstrates a strong knowledge of new technologies, modern application architecture and industry best practices

• Mentors and assists engineers and evangelizes best practices. Pairs with and mentors engineers while evangelizing best practices

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field

• 3+ years of experience in software development 

• Knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas and testing strategies

• Experience with COBOL, JCL, TSO/ISPF, DB2, MQ and CICS

• Experience with large scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning

• Knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test driven development

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner