Mainframe Lead

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Sr. Software Engineer - Mainframe Lead

Address: Onsite, Fremont, MI

Hours: Full Time

Job Description:

Individual contributor collaborating with a team of 7-10 engineers performing rapid agile software development to advance life insurance policy administration capabilities for the company.

Individually performs legacy policy administration COBOL application development to run all end-end life insurance processing (product config, billing, collections, policy servicing, claims).

Collaborates with peers to integrate with upstream and downstream systems that enable end-end life insurance processing.

Contributes to the execution of the roadmap for mainframe-based life insurance policy administration software modernization transformation.

Collaborates with all teams to advance the policy administration application architecture by evaluating and introducing new technologies.

Grows the ADSD agile and analytical mindset and perpetuates the ADSD "can-do" spirit with existing employees and contractors.

Participates in aligning the organizational design with the changing technical landscape while selectively recruiting and hiring like-minded new engineers.

Individually manages product and sprint backlogs as needed to deliver software change.

Responsible for estimating new work to meet demand for policy administration software change.

Leads teams by example using all people, process, and technology advantages across the company.

Individually adheres to all designs, policies, procedures, and standards for data security and regulatory compliance.

Performs other duties as assigned and complies with all policies and standards.

Critical Information:

M.S. Computer Science, less than a Master's degree may be acceptable if accompanied by other technical training, relevant certifications, or extensive experience.

Typically requires at least 7 years of software engineering change management experience with at least 5 years in a leadership setting.

Typically requires 5 years of custom DTC and agency end-end life insurance software change management experience.

Typically requires 3 years leading a team of COBOL policy administration software engineers utilizing both waterfall and agile Scrum delivery frameworks.

Must have the ability to simplify large-scale system change related needs to minimize total cost of ownership.

Must have an agile mindset and passion for innovation and continuous integration.

Legacy Policy Admin: Mainframe CICS, APS, IMS, VSAM and JCL.

New: Mainframe COBOL w/ MicroFocus, Web UI, DB2, zOS Connect, IBM MQ.

Familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript (Angular), AJAX, HTML, CSS, Java, Spring and/or .NET, C# / C++.

Experience with Docker, GIT, Maven, Jenkins, JIRA.

Cloud exposure (Azure preferred).

Full-time