Sr Mainframe Developer

• Responsible for conforming to customer standards and requirements and will be involved in creating and maintaining code and database structures such as COBOL Restructured Extended Executor (REXX) Job Control Language (JCL) CLIST DB2 as well as numerous mainframe utility tools such as SYNCSORT FileAID/Related Data XPERT (RDX) etc. Responsible for unit testing and validation against desired outcomes. The resource is expected to function as part of a team maintain a high level of collaboration with federal client of customers and must demonstrate excellent communication skills to ensure success.
  
• Develop JCL and software code using customer defined standards and software engineering best practices
  
• Evaluate impacts of database schema changes on existing software components
  
• Investigate and repair application defects related to business logic middleware or database (DB2).
  
• Provide software expertise in one or more of these areas: Java application integration Java enterprise services serviceoriented architectures (SOA) security and business process management/business rules processing.
  
• Brief management customer team or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience
  
• Provide guidance/support to other junior/midlevel developers.
  
• Impact functional strategy by developing new solutions processes standards or operational plans that position Client competitively in the marketplace.
  
• Use MS Project Visio and IT Governance Frameworks to document the solution architecture & develop UML based design documents.
  
• Attend all customer technical discussions/design/development meetings and provide technical inputs to further enhance the code quality/process.
  
• Impact functional strategy by developing new solutions processes standards or operational plans that position Client competitively in the marketplace.
  
• Provide guidance/support to other junior/midlevel developers.
  
• All other duties as assigned or directed.
  

• Strong experience with IBM z/OS (OS/390/MVS) environment developing and maintaining JCL and COBOL Dialog Manager CLIST JCL and DB2 for application software systems.
  

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Mathematics Engineering or a related field with 7 years of experience
  
• Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience
  
• 10 years of experience with Mainframe.
  
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
  

• Advanced experience with DB2 load and unload utilities (e.g. FileAID TestBase IBM utilities).
  
• Entry level to moderate working knowledge of CLIST or REXX and/or FileAID/RDX Highly Desired.
  
• General experience with PII/FTI data protection (e.g. data masking data sanitization) Highly desired
  
• Experience with mainframebased software configuration management systems such as Endevor.
  
• Experience with ControlM or other mainframebased job scheduling tools.
  
• Detail oriented and committed to consistently completing repetitive productionlike tasks ontime and errorfree.
  
• Ability to independently research problems and provide solutions.
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication and customer relations skills.
  
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
  

• Experience with the implementation of Section 508 standards for Web Applications.
  
• Exposure to writing Technical White Papers and systems design documents.
  
• Prior experience with federal or state governments IT projects.
  
• Experience with Java and other low code platforms like ServiceNow Pega MS Power Platform etc.