Mainframe Lead(Only on W2)

Title: Mainframe Lead
Location: Pekin, IL (Remote works)
Note: Life Insurance Experience is preferred

Contract: Only on W2

Responsibilities:

• Provide full life cycle development with COBOL
• Understand coding standards and implement them within code being developed
• Ability to troubleshoot problems and provide solutions
• Ability to communicate with the users to determine problems or design requirements
• Ability to work individually or on a team to complete programming projects in a timely manner
• Ability to document changes and follow the Systems Development Life Cycle process independently
• Other duties as assigned by the Manager of Application Development.

Skills And Qualifications:

• Lead development/configurations efforts and maintain Life applications Life Alpha & other interface (Eldorado, Print services, Agency, Accounting etc.) related changes.
• Build Prototypes, conduct POC to validate architectural decisions and demonstrate feasibility & mitigate risks early in the development process.
• Implement new enhancements to Life applications using COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS & CICS Web services etc. in Mainframes and Distributed changes using Java, HTML, Javascript & JQuery.
• Develop / Enhance SOAP & CICS Web services to integrate Life applications with front-end interfaces iPipeline, Resonant, Lifebase etc.
• Trouble shoot issues reported by debugging COBOL code using Xpeditor, Abend-Aid & Data related issues using SQL studio, SPUFI, File-Aid, TSO/ISPF etc., distributed issues using Eclipse, SOAP-UI tools.
• Data model changes relevant to requirements and build onetime update jobs / SLAP processes to automate massive data changes.
• Conduct code reviews, resolve code conflicts and ensure right components / versions are used.
• Merge code to build environments, maintain code versions using TOPAZ/ISPW as version control tool.
• Ensure all requirements are coded & performance considerations meet Pekin coding standards.