Software Engineer 2 (Mainframe Developer))

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. 

Job Description

This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products

• Effectively represent MPS in meetings with the business line or other system areas on projects and ServiceNow requests

• Analyze and give feedback for a Technical Design and Coding Walk-Thru for any size project

• Mentor Junior level developers and the business line on MPS system components and processing.

• Work cooperatively with peers, management, and other business and system team members.

• Give direction and drive solutions during PI Planning, story refinement, and daily stand-ups.

• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs

• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements

• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards

• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices

• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Expert-level COBOL development, debugging, and maintenance across complex mainframe applications

• Strong experience with CICS program development and support in high-volume transaction environments

• Advanced proficiency in JCL and PROCs creation, troubleshooting, and optimization

• Deep understanding of DB2 development, performance tuning, and maintenance in z/OS environments

• Familiarity with modern integration patterns, including APIs (REST/JSON) and distributed system interactions

• Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud (compute, storage, authentication, serverless)

• Experience with modern development tools and practices (Git, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, CI/CD pipelines)

• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environments and event-driven technologies such as Kafka

Location expectations 
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what ma