Mainframe Developer

Role: Mainframe Developer (Full Time - FTE)
Location: Dallas, TX, Jersey City, NJ; & Merrimack, NH (Hybrid)

Experience: from 5+ years to 10+ years

Overview:

The Skills You Bring

•  Your Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) in defining, developing, and leading an interactive team to implement scalable application solutions

•  Your DE in mainframe application development, automation, and support, utilizing COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, MQ-Series, and SQL

•  Your DE in mainframe performance tuning and capacity planning, including ways to reduce I/Os, CPU Time, MSUs, and MIPs, using Strobe, iStrobe, and Platinum Detector

•  Your DE in mainframe application development including: file format and comparison using File-AID; version management using Endeavor; debugging and unit testing using Intertest and Abend-AID; and job scheduling using Control-M

The Value You Deliver

•  Performing as a mainframe engineer within an Agile team, including requirements gathering, development, and end-to-end testing

•  Defining, developing, and leading interactive team to implement application level architecture, giving due consideration to application scalability and extensibility, and conformance to established standards

•  Providing on-site and on-call support as needed and acting as a subject matter expert as part of a cross-functional crisis management team

•  Developing applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division

•  Recommending development testing tools and methodologies and reviewing and validating test plans

•  Resolving technical roadblocks involving multiple technologies and making recommendations and improvements to avoid them in the future

•  Collaborating with multiple layers of management to share approaches, develop solutions, and improve capabilities throughout the organization

•  Leading collaborative sessions and ceremonies with stakeholders and providing guidance and feedback to team members

•  Being responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables

•  Planning and conducting system testing

•  Developing comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems

•  Establishing full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms

•  Being responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget

•  Advising on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects

•  Planning and coordinating project schedules and assignments for multiple projects

•  Acting as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues

•  Providing technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives

•  Performing independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several initiatives

•  Developing original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts