Software Development Specialist - Mainframe Skills

Who are we?

Amdocs helps those who build the future to make it amazing. With our market-leading portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our customers’ innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers. Our 30,000 employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers’ migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $4.3 billion in fiscal 2021. For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com

In one sentence

Responsible for the design, development, modification, debugging and/or maintenance of software systems. Works on specific modules, applications or technologies, and deals with sophisticated assignments during the software development process.

What will your job look like?

** Preferred work locations can be in Dallas, Atlanta or St. Louis **

• Be accountable for and own specific modules within an application and provide technical support and guidance during solution design for new requirements, problem resolution for critical / complex issues while ensuring code is maintainable, scalable and supportable
• Analyze new Business requirements, determine impact to your applications, and design solutions required to implement the new or changed functionality
• Validate test results and post-release production data
• Present demos of the software products to partners and internal/external customers, using technical knowledge to influence the direction and evolution of the product/solution
• Investigate issues by reviewing/debugging code and providing fixes (analyzes and fixes bugs) and workarounds, will review changes for operability to maintain existing software solutions, will highlight risks and will help mitigate risks from technical aspects
• Bring continuous improvements/efficiencies to the software or business processes by utilizing software engineering tools and various innovative techniques, and reusing existing solutions. By means of automation, reduces design complexity, reduces time to response, and simplifies the client/end-user experience
• Represent/lead discussions related to product/application/modules/team (for example, leads technical design reviews). Establishes relationships with internal customers/partners
  

All you need is...

• Bachelor's degree in Science/IT/Computing or equivalent and 7-8 years' experience as a software engineer or a software support engineer
• Experience with mainframe programming concepts and ability to write software code in at least one mainframe programming language
• Required skills include: JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS, PL/SQL, SQL Shell scripting, Oracle DBA skills, TOAD, ChangeMan, GiT CodeCLoud, Groovy, and/or ESP
  

Even better if you have...

• Data analysis experience, Cloud Native Computing knowledge and Linux experience would be a plus.

Why you will love this job:

• You’ll work with a team of skilled, experienced and dedicated IT professionals.
• The chance to serve as a specialist in software and technology and work on large, complex business applications.
• You will take an active role in technical mentoring within the team.
• We provide stellar benefits from health to dental to paid time off and parental leave!