Mainframe Developer

Mainframe technologies, UNIX, Informatica, SQL Server, PUTTY, WINSCP.

• Participates in and conducts development activities with offshore resources.
• Prepares test plans for unit testing, regression testing, system and production parallel testing.
• Conducts technical walkthroughs with all stakeholders.
• Supports system testing activities and resolves any technical issues.
• Ability to problem solve, code, test, and deploy application fixes in a fast-paced SLA driven environment.
• Codes and tests high priority and critical changes utilizing COBOL, JCL, DB2, and VSAM.
• Handles change requests for implementing changes and owning them until closure.
• Provides emergency bug fixes to production issues and resolving client research requests.
• Provides production support by fixing batch process abnormal ends within strict SLAs.
• Meets with project managers to provide daily or weekly project statuses.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent
• 5+ years of software development engineering experience.
• Working knowledge in an IBM Mainframe environment – proficient with COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, and working with IBM Mainframe ZOS toolsets.
• Strong knowledge of the following:
  Job Scheduling (CA7); IDCAMS, Sync Sort;
  Infogix;
  File-Aid;
  Abend-Aid;
  File Transmission (FTP/NDM);
  Endevor;
  Clarity
• Application Production Support – ability to provide 24x7 support for up to a week at a time.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills,
• Experience in technical design writing and documentation.
• Proficient with usage of MS office – Outlook, Word, Excel. Share Point
• Estimation, Analysis, Design, Design reviews, Coding, Code reviews, unit testing in small increments of work (mainframe)
• Troubleshooting (root cause analysis) and debugging applications in different mainframe programming languages
• Software testing and quality assurance
• Document software code and ensure that technical documentation i.e. configuration guides, install guides, system designs, others meet requirements
• Develop and Integrate software with existing systems
• Maintain standards compliance
  
  Report status of assigned software development and/or maintenance tasks consistently following the specified software development methodology
• Communicate effectively with a positive and confident attitude