What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Mainframe Engineer (Remote) position at Kohl's?
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
