Cobol Applications Developer

Job description

Chase is the U.S. consumer and commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.3 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries We serve more than 50 million consumers and small businesses through more than 5,600 bank branches, 18,700 ATMs, credit cards, mortgage offices and online and mobile banking as well as through relationships with auto dealerships.

Within Chase, Consumer Banking provides great products and an outstanding customer experience at over 5,600 branches and 18,700 ATMs in 23 states, as well as online and over the phone.

As a Chase employee, you'll be part of a company that makes a real difference every day for our customers, our communities and ourselves. With a focus on customer service, you'll put others first, do what's right and create solutions that make lives better. We invite you to build your career on our strong foundation and help shape what's next – for you and for us.

As an Applications Developer, you will work with business and IT leadership to understand IT business strategy and their implication to application(s) under responsibility. You will be accountable to Business and Technology Management for end to end application scoping, planning, development, implementation and post-implementation maintenance and support. You will meet regularly with technology Portfolio Manager(s) and technology partners to prioritize business and client demands. You will responsible for providing weekly status and metric reporting and an 18 month rolling resource plan. You will prioritize and manage development and implementation of enhancements and/or changes; work with Release Managers/PM's to incorporate future or client specific enhancements into the overall release schedule and delivery framework, in addition to overseeing the pipeline of requests Production break-fixes. This includes the final production acceptance review and signoff; manage the issue resolution process for any application production problems; and oversee Operations Monitoring and Capacity Management. You will also partner with the QA lead/manager to ensure formal QA and UAT acceptance of modules; help manage the relationship with internal and external services vendors to ensure superior service delivery for all application core technologies including the management of Offshore delivery as applicable; work with Application Developers and Business Leads/Managers to define and monitor Service Level Agreement's and negotiate appropriate support commitments for existing products; and interact with the PMO Management team and client users to understand and prioritize demand and suggest enhancements.

You will manage individual workload and work of team to deliver to agree upon project milestones; identify/mitigate risks to delivering solution on time; and act as a team leader, providing support and a review point, for Project Managers and Developers - may be responsible for one or more teams. You will oversee activities of team leads and supporting staff and provide individuals with constructive feedback as it pertains to team performance; coach staff in technical matters and delivering on other job-related responsibilities; conduct performance reviews, appraisals and personal development planning with each team member; and promote effective teamwork and resolve interpersonal issues.
This position required the demonstrated ability to manage multiple work streams including Business Analysts, Developers, Infrastructure, Architecture, etc.
· As an Application Developer, you will provide high quality technology solutions that address business needs by developing applications within mature technology environments, Maintenance, and providing supports.
· Utilize mature programming methodologies and languages and adhere to coding standards, procedures and techniques while contributing to the technical code documentation.
· Participate in project planning sessions with project managers, business analysts and team members to analyze business requirements and outline the proposed IT solution.
· Participate in design reviews and provide input to the design recommendations; incorporate security requirements into design; and provide input to information/data flow, and understand and comply with
· Project Life Cycle Methodology in all planning steps.
· Adhere to IT Control Policies throughout design, development and testing and incorporate Corporate Architectural Standards into application design specifications. Additionally, you will document the detailed application specifications, translate technical requirements into programmed application modules and develop/Enhance software application modules.
· Read and understand business requirements, write functional requirements, develop detailed technical designs, and build / unit / system test application code.
· Participate in code reviews and ensure that all solutions are aligned to pre-defined architectural specifications; identify/troubleshoot application code-related issues; and review and provide feedback to the final user documentation.
· Provide implementation and post implementation support for application code and system maintenance releases.
· Provide first call level production support for the suite of applications. Participate in Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis and High Risk reviews.

Desired profile

Basic Qualifications:

- - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field of study or equivalent relevant experience in mainframe programming.

- - 1 to 2 years of progressive experience in Information Technology

Preferred Qualifications:

- - Experience in Agile development methodology is preferred

- - Experience with ASSEMBER, Batch and online system with credit card or financial systems with high throughput and quick response times is preferred.

- - Functional experience with change management, implementation planning and release management

- - Experience in code management and versioning methodologies with experience with a leading code management

- - Financial industry experience and credit card or payment systems experience in large scale/high volume industry is preferred

- - Must work well either independently or as part of a team with a strong desire to excel

- - Good business knowledge of end to end Credit Card processing preferred