Mainframe Vantage Programmer

Role: Mainframe Vantage Programmer
Location: Addison, Texas

The role requires technical, domain level and specialist skills to ensure that all the engineering services are operated, maintained and constantly upgraded as technology advances.

There can be multiple functions within the job involving multiple products and technologies. Including but not limited to programming, support to maintain essential environmental conditions & analysis creating functional/technical design solutions. The job holder may specialize in a single or combination of those functions/technologies.



Day to Day job Duties:

Attending the client Meetings to understand the client requirements and provide technical solutions to build Traditional Life products in Policy Administrative Systems
Build Life Products on Vantage policy administration system
Build out a plan from scratch using Product Wizard, with Understanding of Traditional life Products, system migrations, and conversions
Participate in the process of defining, documenting, and analyzing customer requirements, business processes and procedures.
Researching and writing down the technical changes involved as per the client requirements, identifying dependencies of different systems and prepare Technical Specification Document
Perform code and design reviews to ensure that the deliverables adhere to the project guidelines
Testing of all the changes done for the project through different test cases and later evaluate the results to make sure test results are as expected
Providing SIT and UAT support and production roll outs.
Review code delivery and manage the defect tracking.
Timely resolution of abends/obstacles in testing

Basic Qualifications:
Minimum 5+ years of Vantage / WMA Experience
Minimum 5+ years of experience in TRAD whole life product development
Minimum 8+ years development experience using COBOL, JCL, DB2

Travel: This position requires someone who can travel at least 80%. Preferred location is Addison, Texas
Degree: Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent work experience