Senior Mainframe Developer - JCL/COBOL (3-14 yrs)

Job Role : Mainframe Senior Developer

WFH and WFO

Job Description :

Responsibilities :

- Analyzing user requirements, envisioning system features and functionality.

- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable mainframe codes by setting expectations and features priorities.

- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development

- Contributing to team meetings, troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms

- Understand Architecture Requirements and ensure effective Design, Development, Validation and Support activities

- Perform research, analysis, design, planning, coding, and testing

- Investigate and resolve routine or common incidents and issues

- Plan and execute automation/streamlining activities to reduce manual efforts/cost

- Participates in project calls with stakeholders representing our applications and asses the impacts and action items for our applications

- Participate in the support, coordination, and execution of scheduled maintenance activities including validation during upgrades, DR tests, etc.

- Be available for project and maintenance activities outside normal working hours, if needed

- Proficient in multiple programming languages with depth of knowledge within specific tech stacks (application languages, algorithms, database normalization, data structures, common tools, etc.,)

- Comfort in modern computing techniques inclusive of TDD, CI/CD, Human-Centered design, code management including reuse, secure computing

- Strong bias towards automating any process that repeats

- Takes pride in end-to-end digital product ownership from coding to production deployments and support

- Demonstrates mindset of continuous refactoring for codebase

- Key contributor during incident responses and root cause management

- Strong business acumen to ensure effective iteration materializes in achieving intended outcomes

- General understanding of how digital product is delivering value towards applicable business area and only writing software that contributes to that value

- Ability to write technical stories, size appropriately and influence the prioritization in partnership with Digital Product Manager

- Ability to recognized and pivot when sizing assumptions are not validated in development in partnership with Digital Product Manager

- Demonstrates strong empathy towards Human-Centered design thinking

Technical and Professional Requirements :

Primary skills Required: Mainframes, COBOL, PL/1, CICS, JCL, DB2Tools: IBM Rational tools (IDz, RDz, RBD, RTC)

Additional Responsibilities :

- In-depth knowledge of design issues and best practices

- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming

- Familiar with various design, architectural patterns and software development process.

- Experience with both external and embedded databases

- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

- Good verbal and written communication skills

- Ability to communicate with remote teams in effective manner

- High flexibility to travel