Cobol Developer Senior Consultant

Amar Oughlissi

Cell: 781-***-****

****.*********@*****.***

Malden, MA

Fully Work Authorized, No Visa Sponsorship Required Objective

Seek a challenging position as an experienced Mainframe Consultant with 6+ of expertise in COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, CICS and Z/os. Be able to apply my full potential and knowledge with opportunities for advancement.

Professional Experience

Mainframe Consultant

Crédit Agricole Titre - France

• Process and run daily business requests and conduct a preliminary risk analysis.

• Analyze, develop and maintain mainframe applications to support critical business operations.

• Test developed applications and created JCL via EGEN to ensure the proper functioning of the solution and the non-regression.

• Modify existing batch or TP jobs based on the business needs.

• Deliver packages in pre-production environment for business test/approval.

• Deliver packages in the production environment.

12.2024 – 08.2025

• Take the lead on problem resolution and provide ongoing maintenance and support.

• Document code changes, technical designs and process workflow. Technical Environment: Cobol V6, Microfocus, VSAM, PTF, Z/os, JCL, DB2, SQL, MVS/TSO, XML, Unix, sqldeveloper, CICS, Egen and RPP/RTC, FILEAID.

Mainframe Senior Consultant 03.2024 – 11.2024

SOPRA STERIA – Paris, France

• Understanding Management needs, ensuring that their expectations are met, and successful outcomes are achieved,

• Monitor project progress and quality assurance in agile methodology,

• development of Batch programs/scripts and conception of TP in the Open and Host word,

• Unit test, integration test and documentation of test plan,

• Programs delivery via Gitlab and Jenkins,

• Creation and modification of settings table START,

• JCL creation and modification via EGEN,

• Creation and track of Jira tickets.

Technical Environment: Cobol, Microfocus, PTF, Z/os, JCL, DB2, SQL, Jira, MVS/TSO, XML, Unix, FileZilla, mRemote, sqldeveloper, CICS, Egen, Gitlab, Jenkins, FILEAID. Mainframe Senior Consultant 04.2023 – 10.2023

BPCE – Charenton-le-Pont – Paris, France

• Analyze user/business software system requirement and determines needs,

• Develops, analyzes, prioritizes and organizes requirements specifications, data mapping, diagrams and flowcharts for developers and tester to follow,

• Translates highly technical specifications into clear non-technical requirements,

• Manage daily incidents coming from business.

Technical Environment: TOPAZ, Z/os, JCL, DB2, SQL, Jira, MVS/TSO, XML. Mainframe Senior Consultant 11.2018 – 03.2023

ALLIANZ – La Défense, France

• Responsible of BATCH treatments in the life assurance field,

• Understanding Management needs and translate this need into technical aspect, conception, development and interface optimization through migration into the production environment,

• Performing impact analysis, diagnostic of incident, correction or evolution requests coming from Management,

• Performing unit test and integration test to ensure quality assurance when delivering the programs in the different environments,

• Implementation of new treatment of JCL and planification,

• Optimization of the use of the DB2 table,

• Analyzing and resolving incidents in the production environment,

• Monitor project progress.

Technical Environment: Z/os, JCL, DB2, SQL, Jira, MVS/TSO, FILEAID, ENDEVOR. Mainframe Engineer 07.2018 – 10.2018

PACIFICA – Boulogne-Billancourt, France

• Development and maintenance of BATCH program,

• Performing unit test and integration test

• Weekly reporting of the project progress

Technical Environment: Z/os, JCL, DB2, SQL, MVS/TSO, CICS, FILEAID, ENDEVOR. Educational and Training

Rian Immigration Center - Bostin, MA, USA 2023

• Immersion in English learning

ESTIAC Agile Concept - Paris, France 2018

• Computer Designer Training

University of Franche comté - Belfort, France 2018

• Master 2 in Electrical Energy and IT

Skills

• Advanced knowledge of Mainframe and COBOL.

• Strong analytical skills.

• Extensive experience in Mainframe Development.

• Knowledge in Project Management.

• Strong knowledge in delivering effective and engaging presentation.

• Other: details oriented, self-motivated, work well under pressure, good communication and interpersonal. Language

Cobol V6, Microfocus, VSAM, PTF, Z/os, JCL, DB2, SQL, MVS/TSO, XML, Unix, sqldeveloper, CICS, EGEN, RPP/RTC, FILEAID.

Language Skills

• English: Fluent

• French: Fluent

• Arabic: Fluent

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