Senior Application Developer

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

We actively uphold transparent and fair hiring practices that support individual opportunity, inclusive culture, and career mobility across all levels of our organisation.

We offer meaningful opportunities for growth, a culture of inclusion, and a strong commitment to transparency and integrity in everything we do.

Job Description

Senior Application Developer

Be part of something big, where integrity matters and success inspires, where great people collaborate, innovate and give back, where you feel included, valued and proud. At U.S. Bank we're looking for people who want more than just a job - they want to make a difference in the communities where they live and work. U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Application Developer with design and development experience to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives. In this role you will be part of the EU Authorisation Switch Team responsible for the delivery of highly available and comprehensive solutions in a mission-critical environment. The application is responsible for handling of payment transactions to card schemes and is based on a Stratus OS environment using COBOL language primarily.

This is a permanent full time position based in our Arklow Office in Ireland.

As a Senior Application Developer you will:

• Design, code, test, debug, document, maintain, and modify computer programs of high complexity, significance, and risk

• Recommend solutions to improve business with a focus on core architecture, technology automation and standards

• Guide others through change impact analysis while promoting automation-first and DevOps-aligned practices

• Establish, refine and integrate development and test environment tools and software as needed

• Review, analyse, refine and integrate development and test environment tools and software as needed

• Create and recommend improvements to unit, test plans and testing process based on assessment of organizational needs

• Collaborate closely with teams in all stages of software development lifecycle including design, development and testing of the system

• Design basic and detailed program specifications while ensuring that expected application performance levels are achieved by managing interfaces, service levels, standards, and configurations

• Guide technical staff and business partners to investigate, review, and solve complex, multidisciplinary business problems

• Monitor operating efficiency and organizational needs of existing application systems and identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications of developed projects and recommend technical solutions

• Demonstrate solid understanding of the business needs driving the projects

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

• Application Development – 4+ years of real time application development experience.

• Application Support – 3+ years of experience supporting mission critical applications.

• ·rack record of achievement within the payments industry.

Preferred Skills / Experience

• Extensive experience in:

• Application design, architecture, and development system development life cycle (SDLC), including Agile and CI/CD practices

• Application and system testing with a strong emphasis on automation and quality engineering

• Release management and change control

• Application maintenance and modernization

• IT standards, procedures, and policy

• Modeling (data, process, events, objects)

• Strong preference for experience with:

• Designing, developing, and maintaining automated unit, integration, and regression tests

• Coding for testability, including use of mocks, stubs, and modular design principles

• Integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and enforcing quality gates

• One or more programming or scripting languages used for test automation

• Subject Matter Expertise in:

• Programming and software engineering best practices, including approaches that emphasize early and continuous testing

Desirable Experience

• Development in a Stratus VOS environment using COBOL is highly desirable but not essential.

• Knowledge of and experience in modern development toolchain utilities such as JIRA, Confluence, Git/Bitbucket and Jenkins.

• Previous experience working in cross-organizational agile, portfolio or DevOps environments.

• Fully proficient in performing database queries using SQL.

Skills/Disposition

• A results oriented individual who delivers the highest quality solutions.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• A team player with the ability and experience to lead others to achieve goals and resolution of tasks.

• Exceptional inter-personal skills with an ability to form long lasting and mutually beneficial professional relationships.

• A detail oriented individual who is able to set and work to fixed deadlines.

• Proven ability to multi-task.

• Proven ability to understand complex requirements and issues and communicate them in simple language.

• A self-starter who makes and honours commitments with a clear focus on high quality outcomes.

• Analytical thinker and problem solver who takes ownership of issues and leads them a successful resolution.

• Able to work under pressure and react to changing user requirements.

Location expectations 

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

Accessibility

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need adjustments at any stage of the application or hiring process, please contact your recruiter for guidance and support.

Total Rewards

U.S. Bank is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation practices in line with local regulatory and legal requirements. Our total rewards approach is designed to attract, retain, and support top talent while ensuring equal pay for work of equal value.

We offer a market-competitive compensation package that includes:

• Clearly defined salary ranges aligned with industry benchmarks and internal equity standards.

• Performance-based incentives for eligible employees (as defined by relevant plan rules), awarded through transparent, objective criteria that recognize both individual and company performance.

• Inclusive equitable benefits that are accessible to all employees and focused around our 3 main pillars of financial wellbeing, health & wellness).

• Continuous development opportunities including training, education support, and career progression pathways based on inclusive and transparent criteria.

• Employee recognition programs that celebrate achievements and milestones for all.

We regularly review our compensation and benefits to ensure they remain competitive, inclusive, and responsive to employee needs and market trends. Further details of the compensation package will be provided upon application.

We encourage candidates to explore the full value of our offer, including monetary and non-monetary benefits, at Employee benefits and development | U.S. Bank | Elavon.

Closing Date

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

We aim to provide timely updates throughout the process and encourage early applications to ensure consideration.