Full Stack Mainframe Software Engineer

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow's transportation.

Ford Customer Service Division, within Ford, is committed to provide our customers the "Always On" experience and our mission is to get our customers back on the road, in the shortest possible time. FCSD Tech delivers world class software that our:

• Dealers use to Diagnose, Repair & Service our vehicles

• Customers use for a seamless Service experience

• Ford enterprise uses to run a highly Profitable, Critical and Complex Parts & Service business

FCSD is a true one-stop shop, offering comprehensive Diagnostics, Repair & Service Capabilities for a full portfolio of Electrified, Hybrid and Internal combustion vehicles globally.

We are seeking a Full Stack Mainframe Software Engineer that embraces Agile Programming principles to deliver innovative software products for Ford Motor Company and our Dealers and Customers.

Responsibilities

What you'll do:

• Ability to design, develop and maintain Mainframe COBOL, DB2, SP & JCL to meet support and/or project requirements

• Experience using source code management tools such as Endevor and GitHub

• Quick starter to troubleshoot/resolve incidents and business support items

• Ability to perform application support tasks: systems support, security/audit reviews, and maintenance tasks

• Willingness to assist and troubleshoot current Mainframe environment, participating in production support/pager duty rotation, including weekend and off-hour support coverage

• Experience with CA Agile Central (Rally), backlogs, iterations, user stories, or similar Agile Tools

• Highly effective in working with other Mainframe Engineering and DBA technical specialists, Product Managers, and business partners

• Ability to multi-task effectively and prioritize work based on business impact and urgency

Qualifications

You'll have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent

• 8+ years experience in mainframe development background in design, analysis and coding: COBOL (IMS), JCL, CA7, DB2 and/or SQL, Teradata, and real-time and batch processing

• Ability to design, develop and maintain Mainframe COBOL & JCL to meet support and/or project requirements

• Experience using source code management tools such as Endevor and GitHub

• Quick starter to troubleshoot/resolve incidents and business support items

• Ability to perform application support tasks: systems support, security/audit reviews, and maintenance tasks

• Excellent teamwork, written and verbal communication, and organizational skills are essential, ability to solve complex problems in a global environment

• Ability to multi-task effectively and prioritize work based on business impact and urgency

• Unit and integration testing experience

• Ability to work independently and take initiative when solving unexpected problems

• 1 year experience in Mainframe modernization

• 1+ year experience implementing z/OS connect, SFTP, SOAP and REST APIs, and other methods for system to system communication and data exchange

Our preferred qualifications:

• 1 year experience in Google Big Q

• Experience with Jira, backlogs, iterations, user stories, or similar Agile Tools

• Willingness to assist and troubleshoot current Mainframe environment, participating in production support/pager duty rotation, including weekend and off-hour support coverage

• Highly effective in working with other Mainframe Engineering and DBA technical specialists, Product Managers, and business partners

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to manage changing priorities

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

Benefits

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

• Tuition assistance

• Established and active employee resource groups

• Paid time off for individual and team community service

• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: fordcareers.co/GSRnon-HTHD

This position is a range of salary grades 7-8.

Additional Information

• Visa sponsorship is available for this position

• Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.