Company:
Highbrow LLC
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Closing Date: 24/10/2024
Salary: £100 - £125 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
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).
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