Mainframe Architect

Role - Mainframe Architect

Location- Kansas City, MO ( Hybrid - 3 Days from Office )

Required Skills:

• Hands on HOGAN CIS or Deposits Mainframe Cobol, JCL, IMS DB, and VSAM development experience.
• Strong Changeman, File Manager, EZTRIEVE and TSO Development skills, Tool experience.
• Excellent debugging skills
• Good understanding of third-party dependency management and transitive dependency issues
• Strong knowledge on IMS database
• Understanding of the software development life cycle
• Experience with implementation and release management activities
• Good understanding of unit/system and functional testing methodologies
• Experience working in large transaction-based systems
• Experience writing technical designs
• Experience documenting technical functions

Roles & Responsibilites -

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank's technology transformation Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation.