Mainframe Developer – Cobol – Vsam – Jcl – Cics

Mainframe Developer – Cobol – Vsam – Jcl – Cics

Requirements

• Experience in Mainframe Cobol, JCL, CICS, VSAM.
• 3 years banking or finance related experience.
• Knowledge of end-to-end systems development life cycles, i.e., waterfall, iterative and other modern approaches to software development.
• Proficiency in business modelling and requirements definition disciplines through Unified Modeling Language (UML), use cases, etc.
• Excellent customer service skills that build high levels of customer satisfaction for internal and external customers.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization, e.g., executive, management, individual contributors.
• Willingly shares relevant technical and/or industry knowledge and expertise to other resources.
• Excellent problem-solving, team and time management skills.
• Is resourceful and proactive in gathering information and sharing ideas.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, test, implement, maintain and support applications software that is delivered on time and within budget.
• Develops and implements solutions that require analysis and research.
• Provides application software development services or technical support typically in a defined project.
• Develops program logic for new applications or analyzes and modifies logic in existing applications.
• Codes, tests, debugs, documents, implements and maintains software applications.
• Maintains, tests and integrates application components.
• Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code.
• Ensures system improvements are successfully implemented.
• Demonstrates an understanding of FIS systems and the financial services industry.
• Analyzes requirements and translates business requirements into product designs.
• Writes technical specifications and other forms of documentation.
• Suggests technical alternatives and improves/streamlines processes and systems.
• Completes project assignments and special projects commensurate with job expectations.
• Conducts planning, analysis and forecasting activities to plan projects and tasks.
• May participate in component and data architecture design, performance monitoring, product evaluation and buy vs. build recommendations.
• May provide leadership and/or guidance to other technical professionals.
• Other related duties assigned as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Systematics ALS is nice to have but not required.