- Transform business requirements and research into winning delivery solutions that meet performance goals.
- Rigorously build and test applications
- Aim for defect-free programming, create, and maintain quality code, provide support during testing cycles and post-production deployment, engage in peer code reviews.
- Contribute to project plans, estimations, and status updates.
- Identify issues, develop, and maintain processes that address and resolve them, (and be sure to communicate/alert stakeholders as needed).
- Primarily focus on day-to-day activities.
- Make enhancements and troubleshoot.
- Configure and develop custom components with technology partners (analysts, developers, designers etc.) to meet requirements and goals.
- Ensure applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities (and follow standard security practices).
- Proactively put forward ideas that speak to project objectives (e.g. development, testing solutions, and tools).
- Complete unit and integration testing per standards and design specs.
- Respect client’s technology delivery practices and standards, project management disciplines.
- Stay on top of state-of-health monitoring and monthly SLA targets.
- Apply and share technical expertise during incident management life cycle (e.g. analyzes reports and outages, perform impact assessments, facilitate stakeholder communication).
Accountabilities:
- Be accountable for complex applications/systems development, programming /coding.
- Provide estimates for new projects and initiatives for the development / design components working with relevant team members / stakeholders.
- Develop applications that meets the defined requirements (business, enterprise architecture direction, system performance and development standards)
- Review technical deliverables throughout detailed design and development phase to ensure quality adherence and identify gaps or redesign requirements as needed.
- Comply with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines, business technology architecture, and risk and production capacity - including development of project documentation of system requirements, estimates of scope and cost.
- Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review signoffs for solution design.
- Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation, and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness, and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team.
- Establish effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program, and project managers.
- Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units.
- Performs complex to difficult technical tasks independently.
- Ensure design leverages existing reusable components and has traceability to business requirements and ensure new modules are designed with reusability.
- Provide technical support for escalated incidents / outages to ensure that they are resolved efficiently with minimal impact to stakeholders.
- Prioritize and manage own workload to deliver quality results and meet timelines.
Skills and Experience Required:
- COBOL
- JCL/CA7 Scheduling tool/Endevor
- VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method)
- SAS
- Jira, Confluence
- ServiceNow (Incidents Management)
- Attentive to detail
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Highly organized, self-motivated and customer oriented
- Positive attitude
- A person that can work independently or in groups
Required:
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in a Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent field
- 7+ Years of hands-on experience developing mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, SAS, VSAM, CA7/Endevor.
- In depth knowledge of mainframe technologies including tools to trouble-shoot technical problems
- Good understanding of Creational, Structural, Behavioral Design Patterns, architecture patterns, Application, and Integration architectures
- Good understanding of Agile methodologies
- Financial Industry experience preferred.
- Business analytical skills
Desired:
- CICS (Customer Information Control System)