Job Description

The Platform & Reliability Engineering Client Information, Clearing and Settlement (CICAS) Middleware Applications department is part of the Network Processing Platform & Reliability Engineering organization. We are responsible for CICAS Platform development and support as well as strategic infrastructure projects related to the CICAS suite of applications.  We are looking for the right person to lead an up to ten person development team in Austin to work on technology transformation projects.  

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business units and technical staff to understand business requirements for use in designing appropriate solutions

• Evaluate options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to implement final requirements

• Analyze, document, design, code, unit test and implement solutions for system enhancements, and production fixes

• Build and maintain effective relationships across functional areas in order to provide superior product support

• Cultivate and suggest ideas for the extension of current systems to new products and services

• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes and systems

• Provide rotational 24x7 on call support for problem analysis and resolution as scheduled

• Ensure on-schedule delivery of a high quality product that meets business and technical requirements

• Participate in design and code review sessions as appropriate to ensure the quality of work delivered by teammates is in accordance with development standards Cultivate and suggest ideas for the extension of current systems to new products and services

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree is required, advanced degree a plus
• Strong oral and written communications skills are required
• 10+ Years of software design and development experience
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation and leadership skills
• Experience with designing and developing solutions for highly scalable, highly available complex systems, preferably in the payment systems or other financial services industry
• Strong working knowledge of C/C++ and Object Oriented Development (preferably on mainframe)
• Able to resolve critical issues for complex systems under tight timeframes using dumps and other tools that may be available
• Experience leading projects from inception through implementation
• Ability to understand large scale systems from the "big picture" enterprise-level to the low level technical view
• Must be able to write technical design and build documentation for all aspects of a project
• Ability to multi task and handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction from management
• Must work well within a team in a fast-paced high performance organization
• Mainframe experience is required
• Exposure to one of more of the following technologies would be beneficial: Fileaid, Assembler language, Rational Clear Case, DB/2, SQL

Additional Information

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.