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Position: Senior Mainframe Developer
Location: Downey, CA, 90242 hybrid
Duration: 11 months
Only W2
Job Summary:
A Senior Application Programmer for Mainframe Systems is responsible for leading and/or working on the most complex IT applications design, documentation, development, modification, testing, installation, implementation, and support of new or existing applications software.
The Senior Application Programmer for Mainframe Systems is responsible for analysing and refining systems requirements; translating systems requirements into applications prototypes; planning and designing systems architecture; writing, debugging and maintaining code; determining and designing applications architecture; determining output media/formats; designing user interfaces; working with customers to test applications; assuring software and systems quality and functionality; integrating hardware and software components; writing and maintaining program documentation; evaluating new applications software technologies; and/or ensuring the rigorous application of information security/information assurance policies, principles and practices to the delivery of application software services.
Experience Required:
- Knowledge and experience in applications software development principles and methods sufficient to participate in the design, development, testing and implementation of new or modified applications software.
- Organization's operational environment.
- Software design principles, methods, and approaches.
- Principles, methods, and procedures for designing, developing, optimizing, and integrating new and/or reusable systems components.
- Pertinent government regulations.
- Infrastructure requirements.
- Experience with CICS/COBOL/DB2 programming in a mainframe environment.
- Strong background using CICS, JCL, and SPUFI via COBOL and DB2.
- Database management principles and methodologies, including Data structures Data modelling Data warehousing Transaction processing
- Functionality and operability of the current operating environment.
- Systems engineering concepts and factors such as, Structured design Supportability Reliability Scalability Maintainability
- Optimization concepts and methods.
- Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of the work.
- Speak and write effectively and prepare effective reports.
Skills Required:
This classification must have a minimum of seven (7) years of experience in electronic data processing systems design and programming with one or more of the software set forth below.
LANGUAGES: COBOL, Natural/ SuperNatural, IMS/DB/DC, DB2/SQL, Assembler, SAS, CICS; MF FOCUS.
TOOLS/UTILITIES: MVS JCL, MVS TSO/ISPF, IBM OPTIM, FILE Manager, SPUFI, ICEMAN/ICETOOLS, SORT, VSAM, CLIST, FTP, DYL260/280, CA Gen (CoolGen), CA Endevor, CA Spool, CA OM Web Viewer, IBM WebSphere, Debugger, N2O.
DATABASES: DB2, IMS, ADABAS, FOCUS; OS: z/OS.
OTHER: EntireX, ASP, HTML, Cloverleaf.