Mainframe COBOL Software Engineer

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Job Title

Mainframe COBOL Software Engineer

What does a successful Mainframe COBOL Software Engineer do at Fiserv?

You will be a part of our Core Acquiring Front End engineering group within Fiserv’s Global Business Solutions (Payment Acceptance) business. You will join an organization responsible for mission critical platforms that support our payment acquiring business. You will be part of a team that captures over 50 million payment authorizations per day with a peak throughput of over 8,000 transactions per second and maintain millisecond fast response time for some of the largest merchants in the US. 

The applications you support will send captured authorizations to settlement processing for our merchant clients to get funded.  You will use your passion to be a critical problem solver who can balance platform stability and resiliency along with modern engineering practices and solutions.

What you will do: 

• Utilize your COBOL development skills to provide operational and technical support for CICS applications related to the company’s enterprise systems to ensure they run reliably, accurately, and successfully
• Implement new technologies for innovative solutions for this area of the business
• Support 24x7x365 applications

What you will need to have:

• 4+ years of experience in COBOL, CICS and Mainframe
• 4+ years of experience in full Software Development Life Cycle and Testing Methodologies
• 4 + years of experience in technical design writing and documentation
• Ability to work some nights and weekends throughout the year for production code deployment and team support schedule
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, work, and/or military experience

What would be great to have:

• Experience in the payments or financial domain
• Experience in TCP/IP programming

Important info about this role:

• We’re better together! This role is fully on-site.
• This is a full-time, direct-hire position, and no contract options or unsolicited agency submissions will be considered.

This role is not eligible to be performed in Colorado, California, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Nevada, Rhode Island or Washington.

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Thank you for considering employment with Fiserv.  Please:

• Apply using your legal name
• Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).

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Fiserv is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law. 

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