Software Engineer

02 Jun 2024

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Company Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

As a part of the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City supports a stable financial system. We work across diverse communities throughout our region and nation to foster understanding in our economy, the payments system, and financial institutions for people from all walks of life.

Together, we serve the public and each other in an innovative environment that values the highest ethical standards. Here you'll find support to develop, united in a clear and common purpose with a diverse team.

This position offers Kansas City based associates considerable work from home flexibility. Candidates needing remote worker accommodations are encouraged to apply.

About the Role:

Under limited supervision, assist in all activities associated with the installation, configuration and initial testing of COTS (Common of The Shelf) applications. Applications run on IBM AIX and Microsoft Windows platforms. Design deployment packages and author installation instructions to produce a high quality, repeatable deployment process. Provide level three technical support for production issues, testing activities, problem resolution, root cause analysis and permanent remediation.

Key Activities:
  • Provide technical expertise for software upgrade projects and new software projects in support of a national check processing platform.
  • Create technical artifacts such as technical designs, data configuration standards, installation instructions, and user guides.
  • Work with other FRB teams to standardize, refine, and constantly improve development processes, practices, and documentation.
  • Develop, write and execute test plans and scripts in support of initial software verification testing.
  • With little or no direction, uses application development tools and utilities to analyze, research, troubleshoot, and resolve complex software problems.
  • With limited guidance, write scripts to automate deployment steps, monitor system health, perform automated testing, and interface with other AIX and non-AIX based applications.
  • Provide Level 3 application support including rotating 24 x 7 on-call support.
  • Mentor other team members in supporting technologies, practices, and tools.
  • Act as technical consultant to National IT, vendors and other RPTS teams.
  • Occasionally work weekend or evening hours as needed.
  • Perform other duties as may be assigned.

Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree specializing in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or a closely related field, from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.
  • Typically requires at least 3 years of relevant experience.
  • Strong leadership skills and experience in a leadership role for projects or teams.
  • Strong Unix technical skills are preferred (especially AIX).
  • Strong Microsoft Windows technical skills are preferred.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills; ability to think logically.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to perform thorough, methodical research to investigate problems and produce detailed written explanation of research results.
  • Excellent organization, multi-tasking, interpersonal, oral communications, customer relations, and writing skills.
  • Strong initiative
  • System installation, configuration, build, deployment and support experience in a complex distributed AIX installation environment. Similar experience in Microsoft Windows installation environment is also preferred.
  • Experience with retail payments processing software including Checkview, TRIPS, VisionIP, or other Check software suites is highly desirable.
  • Experience with retail payment processing is highly desirable.
  • Experience with AIX, Websphere, DB2, MQ Series, Windows, SQLserver and XML or transferrable skills are preferred.
  • Experience with Cloud Computing, Dev Ops, and Agile are highly desirable.
  • Experience using Remedy, JIRA, Automated Testing, SharePoint, and Visio are desirable.
  • Incumbent must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless the Bank grants an accommodation based on a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief.

Certain eligibility requirements apply.

Our Total Rewards program offers benefits that go beyond the basics featuring:
  • Market-leading Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • 401k/Thrift Plan
  • Pension Plan
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Life Insurance
  • Vacation & Personal Time
  • Paid Holidays
  • Parental Leave
  • Adoption Assistance
  • Onsite Fitness Center (Kansas City location)
  • Onsite Cafeteria
  • Onsite Garage Parking at No Cost
  • Additional Convenience Benefits, Discounts and More

The primary desired work location(s) for this position is Kansas City, MO. We offer employees the flexibility to work from home up to 80 percent of the time, depending on specific team needs. Full time remote will also be considered for this position.

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Job Exempt (Yes / No) Yes

Job Category Information Technology

Work Shift First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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