Senior Developer Mainframe Vantage

Key Responsibilities

Planning
- Work in partnership with the project team and business to fully understand project goals and requirements and use this knowledge to effectively plan and execute the development process.
- Actively participate in the code review process to ensure development work adheres to standards and specifications (including peer review and code review external to team).
- Provide technical guidance to the development team through the full software life cycle.
- Expected to conduct analysis and impact assessments, define, and provide options and effort /duration estimates to leaders for approval

Design & Build
- Create low level design documents (including code samples/outlines) and detailed engineering specifications based on complex business, user and non-functional (eg, performance, reliability, balance and controls) requirements.
- Write code, adhering to coding standards, procedures, and techniques.
- Maintain integrity of existing program logic according to specifications. Complete project deliverables using the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Conduct design reviews
- Define and develop unit test plan and provide integration and business test planning input

Document
- Write and/or revise system design documentation and operations documentation providing input into operation support manuals and user guides.
- Create and properly archive all project / technical documentation.

Test & Execute
- Unit test all code and programs prior to releasing them to quality assurance.
- Quickly resolve all unit test issues.
- Assist quality assurance in identifying test cases and creating/mining test data to enable a thorough test of all development deliverables.
- Respond to all inquiries and issues in a timely manner as developed code/program moves through the testing process and into production.
- Provide implementation/production support as required.

Asset Stewardship & Troubleshooting
- Improve the health of system assets by identifying enhancements to improve performance, reliability, and resource consumption.
Process & Technical Guidance

Maintain Skill Set & Relationships
- Maintain up-to-date business domain knowledge and technical skills in software development technologies and methodologies.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with business partners and project teams.

Required Qualifications
- bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent work experience.
- 2-7 years of relevant experience

- Hands-on experience working with Annuity products and policy admin systems such as DXC Vantage-One/wmA
- Experience coding and/or designing on Mainframe COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS.
- Experience working on MF tools like File Manager, Debugger, JOBTRAC, Changeman etc
- Expertise on MF JCL utilities like SORT, MERGE, IDCAMS etc
- Proven ability to successfully translate client/business needs into software designs.
- Individual contributor with strong communication skills
- Proven ability to build relationship and collaborate with teams across organization
- Flexibility in timings for installs and secondary production support.

Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with MF modernization tools like IDZ, TTT (TOPAZ) etc
- Proficiency with related software tools including but not limited to JIRA
- Understand and apply both current technical solution elements (specific tools, components, and frameworks) and abstract elements (algorithms and architectures).
- Effectively applies technology/engineering knowledge-base to multiple and evolving programs and languages.