Mainframe Programmer

Mainframe Programmer

The Expertise You Have:

10+ years of experience as a day-to-day Mainframe Developer working with COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, MQ, etc.

Demonstrated Experience with mainframe performance tuning and capacity planning, including ways to reduce I/O, CPU Time, and MIPs

Demonstrated Experience writing COBOL/Native stored procedures

Good understanding and usage of mainframe tools

Experience in the development and deployment of both Batch and Online transaction processing applications

Experience in the Investment and financial Industry would be a plus

Exposure to Distributed Technologies (Nice to have/Willing to learn)

Participation in on-call support rotation required

Working experience in agile development environment

Ability to plan and work with geographically spread-out teams

Proven communication skills

Passion for Stability and Resilience of the platform The Value You Deliver:

Designing and maintaining architecture solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data

Working with Operations to plan major infrastructure upgrades, to solve issues and to tune the environment for efficient performance and uptime

Collaborating with peers and management on process improvement ideas, policy and procedure enhancements, and opportunities to improve our customer's service experience

Participating in code review and unit testing and providing support on issues in non-rod or production

Communicating and reinforcing technical standards

Assessing and researching current implementations of the platform and determining the course of action required to elevate the platform to meet customer needs