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Title - Mainframe Business Analyst
Location - New York, NY, 10004 (onsite)
Duration - 12 Months Contract
Job Description:
About Us:
We are a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. We can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.
Our Team comprises of highly innovative & talented employees and consultants working in worldwide network of offices located globally. We are looking for a hands-on Mainframe Business Analyst to join our team, which focuses on Payments processing applications. The team believes in continuous improvement and extensively uses agile methodology as an enabler for quality, stability, and efficiency of applications.
Role will involve:
Analysis of legacy Mainframe payments system (both code and data) to define current functionality and translate into requirements for the on-going conversion to a renovated system
Development of test cases to exhaustively prove that renovated functionality mirrors the legacy behaviour
Contributing to decisions concerning strategic direction, prioritization and migration
Being comfortable and effective working in a continuously changing fast paced environment
Collaborating with other global IT & business teams
Skills Required:
5-8+ years of Business Analysis or development in mainframe environment
Bachelor s Degree in computer science or related field
Skills in Adabas Natural, JCL, TSO
Strong Domain expertise in Cash Payments, Payment life cycle, SWIFT messaging and/or Security Settlement
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to clearly explain program logic in business terms
Excellent interpersonal skills and professional approach
Skills Desired:
Experience of COBOL, DB2, VSAM, Fileaid, procs, Unix
Familiarity with Prompt Engineering in order to efficiently use GenAI tools to explain system behavior
Project management experience
Presentation skills
Knowledge of Data Transfer protocols such as NDM, FTP
Knowledge of IBM Z Mainframe and z/OS
Knowledge of OS/390 Operations
Agile development, Rally and/or JIRA