The Northern Trust Company seeks an Associate Specialist, Applications to lead and participate in the design, development, and enhancement of financial application software on an IBM Mainframe computing environment. Conduct feasibility studies and define system requirements for complex data processing projects. Prepare project phase reports, including requirements, feasibility, definition, and design. Collaborate with business unit partners to determine the most effective computer utilization to solve financial business requirements for financial message processing purposes. Assess and ensure compliance with all audit requirements, including change control procedures and data security. Work with support teams to lead resolution of critical production software issues that cannot be resolved by first level software support teams.

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Position requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related STEM field, followed by 5 years of progressively responsible experience with software design, development, testing, and implementation. Experience must include a minimum of: 5 years of experience with maintaining, enhancing, implementing, and supporting financial Pep+ software package from Fiserv and Connexion software from FIS to process ACH Nacha payment transactions and EDI financial messaging; 5 years of experience with system development lifecycle, systems analysis, application program development, requirements definition, and project leadership; 5 years of experience with preparing design documents for new requirements for solution and system enhancement; 5 years of experience with translating business requirements into technical specifications and performing unit testing; 5 years of experience with SCLM Mainframe-based code management tool; 5 years of experience with Service Now change and incident management ticket management system; 5 years of experience with CICS, COBOL, DB2, ftp, IDMS, IMS, JCL, MQ, PL/1, REXX, SOAP WebServices, VSAM, XPEDITOR, and XML; and 3 years of experience working on IBM AS400 platform supporting Midas financial application.

Job location: Chicago, IL. To apply, please visit https://careers.northerntrust.com and enter job requisition number 21110 when prompted. Alternatively, please send your resume, cover letter, and a copy of the ad to K Clemens, 50 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, IL 60603

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