Software Engineer - Mainframe

Job description

American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high-performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative payment products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team!

You will be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team responsible for delivering world class Cardmember experiences across multiple channels, including native iOS, Android, web, social integration, java services, mainframe and APIs. You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

· Performs hands-on software development and testing
· Functions as a core member of an agile team driving user story analysis and elaboration, design and development of software applications, testing, and builds automation tools
· Performs ongoing refactoring of code and drives continuous improvement in code structure and quality
· Uses visualization and other techniques to fast track concepts
· Typically spends 90+% of time writing code, api specs, conducting code reviews and testing in ongoing sprints, or doing proof of concepts/automation tools
· Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
· This “rebel with a cause” looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Desired profile

This high energy Engineer must have:

· A Bachelor"s degree in computer science, computer engineering, other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
· Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges, and articulate solutions
· Ability to think abstractly and deal with ambiguous/under-defined problems
· Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation
· Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software
· Demonstrated experience with Mainframe - JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS
· Experience with MQ, SAS, SORT Utilities – Sync sort,DFsort, and Easytrieve is a plus
· Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, message queuing, and relational/XML databases is a plus
· Experience with web services and Open API development, as well as SOA concepts is a plus
· Experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods is a plus
· Ability to effectively communicate across third parties, technical, and business product managers on solution design is a plus
· Experience with Credit card processing and Account Receivables is a plus