About the Role

As Senior Mainframe Engineer, you will collaborate closely with design, product and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate Kohl’s retail offerings. 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Drives development, testing, deployments and iterative improvement of product capabilities and features in collaboration with designers, product managers and other engineers on the product team

Leverages critical thinking, experimentation, data and industry best practices to implement desired business outcomes

Develops high quality applications that are secure, easy to operate, difficult to break and extremely observable with measurable results.

Responsible for all technical aspects of the product application lifecycle including, code, infrastructure, data, security and CI/CD

Establishes product engineering and software standards

Continuously develops self and demonstrates a strong knowledge of new technologies, modern application architecture and industry best practices

Mentors and assists engineers and evangelizes best practices. Pairs with and mentors engineers while evangelizing best practices

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field

3+ years of experience in software development 

Knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas and testing strategies

Experience with COBOL, JCL, TSO/ISPF, DB2, MQ and CICS

Experience with large scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning

Knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test driven development