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Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. · 2 months ago

Sr. Software Engineer Mainframe (Onsite)

US-MI-FREMONT

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer Mainframe to enhance their life insurance processing capabilities. The role involves collaborating with a team to perform COBOL application development and lead modernization efforts for mainframe-based policy administration software.

Financial Services

Responsibilities

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 (upstream new business, self service and payment applications as well as downstream workflow, document generation, document fulfillment, general ledger, reinsurance, etc. systems)

Individually contributes to the execution of the roadmap for mainframe-based life insurance policy administration software modernization transformation (legacy policy administration applications support 500 operators handling 1 million calls per year to service 3.8 million policies). Specifically collaborates with and leads the evolution of batch-centric processing to real-time enablement to meet instant gratification demand of consumers and the industry

Collaborates with all Gerber Life teams to advance the policy administration application architecture by evaluating, selecting and introducing new technologies that enable new capabilities (IMS and VSAM replacement with DB2, CICS replacement with web technologies, z/OS Connect for mainframe API introduction, IBM MQ and ESB introduction for effective integration with external systems, etc.)

The individual in this role 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

Performs and owns 100% of assigned development and support work

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

Satisfies all new work demand within funding based on those work estimates

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

Complies with all policies and standards

Qualification

COBOL application developmentMainframe modernizationAgile software developmentLeadership experienceDB2IBM MQDockerGITJavaScriptTypeScriptHTMLCSSJavaSpring.NETC#C++JIRAMavenCloud exposure

Required

M.S. Computer Science, less than a Master's degree may be acceptable if accompanied by other technical training, relevant certifications, or extensive experience in positions that demonstrate required abilities and performance

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

Typically requires 5 years of custom DTC and agency end-end life insurance software change management and large-scale internal and public facing service engineering

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 (ensuing overhead)

Must have an agile mindset and insatiable passion for innovation, agile delivery methods and continuous integration

Must be an autonomous team player able to lead effectively while solidifying working relationships at all levels of the organization

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++

Docker, GIT, Maven, Jenkins, JIRA

Cloud exposure (Azure preferred)