Senior Mainframe Developer

Job Title: Senior Mainframe Developer

Job ID: 2022-11867

Job Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Employment Type: W2

Duration: Long Term

Work Eligibility: US Permanent Eligibility to Work Required

Key Technology: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SAS, MQ etc on z/OS

Job Responsibilities:

• Transform business requirements and research into winning delivery solutions that meet performance goals.
• Rigorously build and test applications.
• Aim for defect-free programming, create and maintain quality code, provide support during testing cycles and post-production deployment, engage in peer code reviews.
• Contribute to project plans, estimations, and status updates.
• Identify issues, develop, and maintain processes that address and resolve them, and communicate/alert stakeholders as needed.
• Make enhancements and troubleshoot.
• Configure and develop custom components with technology partners (analysts, developers, designers etc.) to meet requirements and goals.
• Ensure applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities and follow standard security practices.
• Proactively put forward ideas that speak to project objectives (e.g., development, testing solutions, and tools).
• Complete unit and integration testing per standards and design specs.
• Respect client’s technology delivery practices and standards, project management disciplines.
• Stay on top of state-of-health monitoring and monthly SLA targets.
• Apply and share technical expertise during incident management life cycle (e.g., analyzes reports and outages, perform impact assessments, facilitate stakeholder communication).

Accountabilities:

• Be accountable for complex applications/systems development, programming/coding.
• Provide estimates for new projects and initiatives for the development/design components working with relevant team members/stakeholders.
• Develop applications that meet the defined requirements (business, enterprise architecture direction, system performance and development standards).
• Review technical deliverables throughout detailed design and development phase to ensure quality adherence and identify gaps or redesign requirements as needed.
• Comply with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines, business technology architecture, and risk and production capacity.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review signoffs for solution design.
• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation, and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/points of interest.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness, and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team.
• Establish effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program, and project managers.
• Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units.
• Perform complex to difficult technical tasks independently.
• Ensure design leverages existing reusable components and has traceability to business requirements.
• Provide technical support for escalated incidents/outages to ensure that they are resolved efficiently with minimal impact to stakeholders.
• Prioritize and manage own workload to deliver quality results and meet timelines.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Hands-on experience developing mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, SAS, VSAM, CA7/Endevor.
• 5-7 Years of experience (tier 1) or 7+ Years of experience (tier 2).
• In-depth knowledge of mainframe technologies including tools to troubleshoot technical problems.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent field.
• Good understanding of Creational, Structural, Behavioral Design Patterns, architecture patterns, Application, and Integration architectures.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Financial Industry experience preferred.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow (Incident Management).
• Strong business analytical skills.

Nice to have Experience:

• CICS (Customer Information Control System).