Application Development Mainframe Analyst (8-16 yrs)

Responsibilities :

- Support, maintain and participate in the development of software utilizing technologies such as COBOL, DB2, CICS and JCL.

- Support, maintain and participate in the ETL development of software utilizing technologies such as Talend, Abinitio, AWS Glue, PySpark.

- Provide expertise, tools, and assistance to operations, development, and support teams for critical production issues and maintenance

- Troubleshoot production issues, diagnose the problem, and implement a solution - First line of defense in finding the root cause

- Work cross-functionally with the support team, development team and business team to efficiently address customer issues.

- Active member of high-performance software development and support team in an agile environment.

Qualifications

Required Skills :

- Strong Mainframe experience, using Cobol, JCL, DB2 and VSAM

- Strong SQL knowledge on OLAP DB platforms (Teradata, Snowflake) and OLTP DB platforms (Oracle, DB2, Postgres, SingleStore).

- Strong experience with Teradata SQL and Utilities

- Strong experienced with Oracle, Postgres and DB2 SQL and Utilities

- Develop high quality database solutions

- Ability to do extensive analysis on complex SQL processes and design skills

- Ability to analyze existing SQL queries for performance improvements

- Experience in ETL frameworks like Talend, Abinitio, AWS Glue.

- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills

- Structured, methodical approach to systems development and troubleshooting

- Ability to ramp up fast on a system architecture

- Experience designing and developing process-based solutions or BPM (business process management)

- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization.

- Strong interpersonal/relationship management skills.

- Strong time and project management skills.

- Familiarity with modern delivery practices such as continuous integration, behavior/test driven development, and specification by example.[

- Desire to work in application support space

- Passion for learning and desire to explore all areas of IT

Required Experience & Education :

- 3+ years in an application development role

- Bachelor's Degree or higher from an accredited university or a minimum of three (3) years of experience in software development in lieu of the bachelor's degree education requirement

Desired Experience :

- Exposure to AWS

- Healthcare experience