Overview
On Site
USD 120,000.00 - 187,500.00 per year
Full Time
Skills
Systems Engineering
IT Infrastructure
Infrastructure Architecture
Performance Tuning
Software Modernization
Collaboration
Management
Change Management
Configuration Management
Auditing
Risk Assessment
Computer Science
CICS
Mainframe
JIRA
Customer Service
Leadership
Communication
PL/I
IT Service Management
Finance
Law
Job Details
Who we are looking for
The Critical Systems Engineering team has an immediate opening for a CICS Infrastructure Engineer. This challenging role sets strategy and provides leadership of the CICS environment
This role is also responsible for the governance and oversight of our service partners including vendors responsible for the delivery of mainframe IT Infrastructure services; these teams work closely with the State Street operational teams who are responsible for applications and other platforms. This is an oversight role to ensure world-class, high performance CICS infrastructure. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the CICS environment is stable, current, and meeting the needs of clients while exploiting new features/functions and services appropriate to overall organizational direction.
What you will be responsible for
Education & Requirements
Preferred Qualifications
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $187,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Job Application Disclosure:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
State Street's Speak Up Line
The Critical Systems Engineering team has an immediate opening for a CICS Infrastructure Engineer. This challenging role sets strategy and provides leadership of the CICS environment
This role is also responsible for the governance and oversight of our service partners including vendors responsible for the delivery of mainframe IT Infrastructure services; these teams work closely with the State Street operational teams who are responsible for applications and other platforms. This is an oversight role to ensure world-class, high performance CICS infrastructure. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the CICS environment is stable, current, and meeting the needs of clients while exploiting new features/functions and services appropriate to overall organizational direction.
What you will be responsible for
- CICS / CICSPlex infrastructure design & performance/tuning
- Assist developers with application modernization & efficiency and exploitation of new CICS feature/function where appropriate.
- Collaborate with CTG users and application teams to maintain currency of product and security of its use
- Perform Change management governance including review of planned changes for impact and timing and act as one of the weekend duty managers
- Collaborate with application and business teams to understand evolving client requirements and strong ability to explain impact on CICS
- Collaborate with service providers to improve mainframe operations & performance
- Oversee the Secure Baseline (CICs) /Healthcheck process including results and remediation reviews
- Provide direction and approvals for actions and SOPs, change management, configuration management, security, etc.
- Support the increasing regulatory needs including responding to audits, providing evidence, conducting DR exercises, performing Cyber vault exercises, risk assessments, identifying and delivering enhancements, etc.
- Monitor industry for CICS best practices; make recommendations for enhancements in SSC tools and practices. Identify and plan lifecycle changes.
Education & Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or other technical discipline with a minimum of 10 years' experience with CICS infrastructure
- Level-4 troubleshooting skills in a global mainframe environment including experience working with the service providers to ensure effective and reliable operations
- Experience using JIRA for creating and assigning work/tasks
- Proven customer service orientation
- Excellent leadership and exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
Preferred Qualifications
- PL/1 systems programming experience
- Knowledge of CTG
- Familiarity with delivering IT services in a financial service organization
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $187,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Job Application Disclosure:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
State Street's Speak Up Line
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