Mainframe Consultant – COBOL JCL

McLean, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 23 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Strong hands-on experience in COBOL (preferably Enterprise COBOL / VS COBOL II)

Strong hands-on experience in JCL

Mainframe environment expertise: z/OS TSO/ISPF

File handling knowledge: VSAM sequential files SORT utilities (e.g. Syncsort/DFSORT)

Solid debugging and incident resolution skills for batch processing and abends

Good understanding of SDLC (Waterfall/Agile) and production support processes

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

DB2 (SQL SPUFI/QMF stored procedures exposure is a plus)
Online processing exposure: CICS (preferred) IMS (plus)
Tools: File-Aid Abend-AID Expeditor/IBM Debugger
Version/Change management: Endevor Changeman PANVALET
Scheduling: Control M or CA7
< span langEN-US >Mainframe modernization exposure (e.g. Micro Focus migration refactoring) is a plus NC Outlook
Banking domain experience (cards loans payments deposits) preferred

Key Responsibilities

Analyze business requirements and translate them into technical specifications and solution designs.
Develop enhance and maintain COBOL programs (batch and/or online).
Create and modify JCL jobs procedures and utilities to support batch processing.
Perform unit testing support system/integration testing and participate in implementation activities.
Troubleshoot and resolve batch failures/job abends performance issues and production incidents within SLAs.
Work with datasets and file processing involving VSAM and sequential files.
Interact with DBAs/Support teams for DB2 (or other databases) access SQL tuning and issue resolution.
Utilize scheduling and monitoring tools such as Control M/CA7 (as applicable).
Ensure adherence to coding standards documentation practices and change management proc

Job Description Must Have Technical/Functional Skills Strong hands-on experience in COBOL (preferably Enterprise COBOL / VS COBOL II) Strong hands-on experience in JCL Mainframe environment expertise: z/OS TSO/ISPF File handling knowledge: VSAM sequential files SORT utilities (e....