Lead Developer Engineer - Mainframe Engineer

Job Description for Mainframe Developer Lead role
Looking for Mainframe developer lead with 9+ years of experience in Hyderabad location who can join in 30-45 days of notice.
Qualifications:
Primary skillset: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM
Secondary skillset: Assembler, EZtrieve
Minimum of 9 years of experience in software development in mainframe languages (COBOL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM)
Possesses technical knowledge based on experience and highly skilled in (COBOL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM)
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Experience in recent industry trends, software development methodologies (both Waterfall and Agile) and several distributed technology stacks.
Demonstrated ability to create system architecture diagrams and documentation for review by both technical and non-technical audiences
Demonstrated skills in exercising initiative, good judgment, and making sound technical decisions
Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to propose and assess the appropriateness and quality of solutions for moderate to complex solutions
Skilled in leading, guiding, mentoring, and influencing design and architectural discussions
Experience with mainframe debugging tools.

Responsibilities:
Manage a team of offshore consultants on mainframe development projects
Provide mainframe expertise guidance to junior developers
Provide Subject Matter Expert level knowledge to drive technology solution development and integration across the SDLC including requirements, functional specs, design, custom development, integration, testing, and deployment
Design and develop highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems
Building and managing automated build/test/deployment environments
Constantly striving to improve software development process and team productivity
Hands-on with key development technologies
Collaborate with product owners, QA, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and work on user stories/ backlog items and deliver same with highest quality
Attend stand-up meetings and provide updates
Develop solutions and POC s based on customer and project needs
Provide support to delivery for technical issues, escalations and reviews and to help in deploying in a customer environment.
Create documentation of operational tasks, procedures and automated processes.
Fix faults and restore the operability or carry out suitable measures (creation of workaround)

Skills:

• COBOL
• JCL
• Mainframe
• DB2 for z/OS

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