Mainframe Support Developer

Overview

On Site
$55 - $55
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - 12 month(s)
No Travel Required

Skills

Db2
VSAM
JCL
SORT
ICETOOL

Job Details

Job Description:
  • Associate to have a mainframe experience of 6 plus years.
  • Should have good knowledge of regular, IMS, and DB2 COBOL modules.
  • Should have good knowledge of writing JCLs, SORT, and ICETOOL.
  • Should have experience in providing design decisions, solving production job failures, and implementing medium to major projects into production.
  • Should be able to investigate any emergency issues or production problems and provide updates to the business and other stakeholders.
  • In case any quick data fixes are required to address any batch job failure during the night batch, we should be able to write quick SORT/FOCSAS to fix the bad data and provide instructions to continue with the night batch flow.
  • Should know about creating and managing VSAM datasets and logic for reading/writing data from VSAM files.
  • Must have knowledge and experience in using tools like JIRA, Confluence, Git, IBM Z developer, and Mural (Optional).
  • Knowing how to create diagrams on tools like Visio / Lucidchart, etc.. is an added advantage.
  • Must be vocal and able to work in fast fast-paced environment.
  • Must have experience in deployment activities and participation in implementation planning.
  • Onsite associate has to attend agile sessions with product owner in refining detail requirements, assess the impact of the application due to new requirements, provide high level estimate by sharing requirement details and discussing with offshore team.
  • Participate in regular meetings with offshore, prepare and share high level solution design as well as present the same with clients.
  • Provide warranty support of changes deployed by monitoring daily and monthly batch flows.
  • Work with offshore to strengthen existing knowledge transfer material or process to make it more effective.
  • Should have an experience of using GENAI tools (VS code, Git co-pilot etc.,) in day to day development activities.
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