Job Title: Lead Mainframe Developer
Job Location: South Florida,Mt Laurell, NJ, or Manhattan.NY
# Positions: 2
Duration: Long Term
Work Eligibility: All Work Authorizations are Permitted - No Visa Transfers
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
- Perform systems administration: monitor, configure, back-up, authenticate, tune.
- 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 be sure to communicate/alert stakeholders as needed).
- Primarily focus on day-to-day activities.
- 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.
- Take part in scope assessment, risk and cost analysis.
- 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).
Skills and Experience Required
Skills:
- COBOL
- JCL
- DB2
- SAS
- MQ
- Jira, Confluence
Experience:
- 7+ years of experience in leading a Mainframe development/support team.
- 7+ years of experience in developing mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2, SAS, MQ etc on z/OS.
- Solid leadership skills and background.
- Good understanding of Creational, Structural, Behavioral Design Patterns, architecture patterns, Application, and Integration architectures.
- Good understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, etc.).
- Has an ability to work in a global organization with stakeholders.
Desired Skills:
- API
- MS Azure Cloud Computing
- Running Docker containers
- Knowledge on Mainframe Tools ex IDz, ZDT, ADDI, PD tool, IMS Explorer for Development