Lead Software Engineer – Cobol

The Lead Software Engineer- Operations and Support will be responsible for supporting and solving escalated application core issues (break fix) across the digital support services offered. This position will be responsible for providing solutions that include solving the current user experience, application messaging component delivery, and mainframe application issues. Additional responsibilities will include leading operations development meetings, collaborating with management to determine priorities, participation in on-call rotations while being an advisor to less experienced level developers as it relates to decision-making/code changes needed to improve systems stability and application performance and reliability issues. Perform other duties as assigned.

Development Function:

This job function is responsible for collaborating with business product owner’s regarding solving functional and technical system requirements. This will include providing guidance to Software development engineers and testers as needed. In this position you will be responsible for interfacing with internal customers and business partners to determine the most efficient and cost-effective approach to meet their Operations business requirements. This will include detailed discussion for designing, developing, testing, installing, and deploying required software applications. These break fix solutions will include new code construction, modifications to existing modules, configuration and/or package implementation.

Macy’s Inc. is one of the nation’s premier retailers. With fiscal 2016 sales of $25.778 billion and approximately 140,000 employees, the company operates more than 700 department stores under the nameplates Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, and approximately 125 specialty stores that include Bloomingdale’s The Outlet, Bluemercury and Macy’s Backstage. Macy’s, Inc. operates stores in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico, as well as macys.com, bloomingdales.com and bluemercury.com. Bloomingdale’s stores in Dubai and Kuwait are operated by Al Tayer Group LLC under license agreements. Macy’s, Inc. has corporate offices in Cincinnati, Ohio and New York, New York.