Software Engineer III (Finance)

Who you are:

You are one who works on development and maintenance of web and mobile applications and ensure business applications are available for use 24x7 in production. You can use web and mobile technologies and application development tools to create, test, implement, and maintain applications in-house. You can work with internal and external business partners to research problem requests, find, and correct production problems, develop application features, perform quality reviews of project deliverables and maintenance work that is being implemented into production. This position will provide technical consulting on web, mobile and cloud applications to business users, project teams, and other departments in the organization.

Who we are:

Trellis Company is a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation with the dual mission of helping student borrowers repay their education loans and promoting access in higher education. Our strong philanthropic heritage of giving through grants to colleges, universities, and research groups remains focused on improving student outcomes, especially to underserved students, families, and institutions.

As we move into the future, we're drawing on our history, branching into new sectors beyond student loans, and delivering the same level of exceptional care and service that our customers have come to depend on. We remain invested in the success of students and higher education institutions. This combination of stability and vision creates a unique intersection: a startup environment at a company that also has a stable foundation, resulting in an opportunity for the right candidate to help shape our company's future. This is an exciting time to join the Trellis team!

Location:

This position is a hybrid position, requiring two days a week working onsite at Round Rock, Texas.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The position incumbent is expected to perform the following essential duties and responsibilities of the position with reasonable accommodation.

• Business and Technical interactions/communication - Work with business and IT teams collaboratively and communicate verbally and in writing clearly using business as well as technical terms.
• Project planning and estimating - Identify the project milestones, estimating the effort and prepare action tasks.
• Research and Analysis - Performs project analysis, root cause analysis of prod issues, design solutions, identify implementation steps.
• Programming- program the solutions, perform walkthroughs and prepare migration packages
• Testing - Unit testing, System & User Acceptance testing, and Production Smoke testing upon implementation.
• Deployment - Prepare deployment plan, run instructions, get required business approvals for implementation, submit prod implementation packages to operations team.
• Support - Participate in on-call rotation supporting batch and online processing; monitor systems; respond to customer application needs.
• Documentation - Create/update the business and application specifications, processes and procedures.

NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintains and advances professional technical and business application knowledge.
• Assist with special projects as assigned.
• Must be available to work flexible hours.
• Supports other functions and responsibilities of the departments.
• Interacts with all levels of management as necessary.
• Contributes to the development of strategic initiatives.
• Assist with special projects as assigned.
• All other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Utilizes change management approaches.

• Works effectively either independently or in a team environment.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with peers, professionals, and other management team members.
• Quickly learns and applies new ideas and materials.
• Communicates clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing, in a courteous and polite manner.
• Simultaneously handles several concurrent activities.
• Possesses working knowledge of database operations and application security fundamentals.
• Possesses basic understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Ability to produce effective documentation for all phases of application development and support.
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of information technology concepts and trends.
• Ability to effectively communicate functional and technical topics at multiple levels within an organization.
• Proven ability to apply modern technology to complex problems.
• Possesses awareness of non-public information (NPI) privacy safeguards.
• Manages project and schedule time constraints and priorities.
• Proven analytical and complex problem-solving ability

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Experience in the information technology field may be substituted for a degree, or in combination with college courses or a technology certification, on a year-for-year basis.

Experience

Required:

• Four (4) or more years of experience serving in increasingly responsible roles with IBM mainframe applications development, testing, and production support.
• Strong technical experience with COBOL II, CICS, DB2, Z/OS, VSAM, TSO, Syncsort, DB2 utilities, JCL, and IBM Utilities and related mainframe technologies.
• Maintaining and debugging of CICS applications, Cobol batch processing and DB2 stored procedures.
• Knowledge of Top Secret in mainframe applications IAM and application-level security controls.
• Proficiency with both batch and online processing in mainframe environment
• In-depth experience in SQL queries, database operations and reporting
• Must have participated in application on-call support rotation

Preferred:

• Experience converting mainframe Cobol applications to modern distributed applications using Java, Python etc.
• Knowledge of IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI), Watson Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) or other AI based tools for code generation and code conversion
• Experience with IBM development/testing utilities, BMC Control products.
• Change Management, Control-D reports
• Knowledge of FFEL program, student loan applications.
• Possess awareness of non-public information (NPI) privacy safeguards.

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMANDS

• Occasionally must move about inside the office.
• Repetitive motion. Regularly operates a computer, phone, and general office equipment.
• Regularly required to handle, feel, grasp objects and reach across a work area.
• Regularly communicates with other employees and on the phone, virtually, or in person with clients. Regularly converses with internal and external contacts.
• Visual acuity. Regularly must have close visual acuity to view and enter information into computer and software systems, analyze data, develop presentations and reports, and other materials.
• Mental focus. Requires worker to maintain focus and exchange detailed and accurate information through oral and written communication.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Work may be conducted remotely or in an office with a surrounding small cubicle environment.
• Office work environment is climate controlled with no substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity or sexual orientation. We are also an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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