Need a Senior Mainframe Developer who provides COBOL,DB2,CICS with strong JCL development to support legacy Mainframe applications running on Z/OS. The resource will be responsible for development conforming to customer standards and requirements and will be involved in the unit testing and validation against desired outcomes. The resource is expected to function as part of a team which includes customers and must demonstrate sufficient communication skills to ensure success. The successful candidate will provide support in requirements/design/coding/testing/validation efforts for the customer Social Security Administration (SSA)
Has excellent written and spoken communications skills, and will be able to perform technical documentation, user documentation, white papers, and customer presentations as required.
Primary point of contact between SSA user community and the contractor for major projects and will develop detailed and robust code, test, and implement proposed systems
Provides technical direction for performing software development tasks and reviews work products for correctness and adherence to design standards.
Provides technical assistance to less experienced personnel in the resolution of systems-related problems.
Skills Requirements:
Required Skills :
11+ years of strong COBOL development and maintenance experience.
11+ years coding OS/JCL job streams.
11+ year of DB2 experience.
9+ years of strong CICS experience.
9+ years of VSAM experience.
Experience with Endevor, DB2 utilities, FileAid and Xpediter.
Candidate should possess good soft skills with extensive experience with analyzing and documentation of detailed requirements, development of use cases, high level and low level design, and be capable of producing related documentation.
Candidate must possess the experience and ability to work effectively independently without technical oversight and to collaborate effectively within and across teams.
Desired Skills :
Has experience working in Mainframe modernization initiatives.
Has the ability to lead Conversion and Modernization initiatives.
Has a track record of providing latest trends and Creative solutions in mainframe environment to the customers.
Has demonstrated continuous learning and skill development through adoption of new technology trends in ?mainframe environment.
Has past experience with MQ series, Mainframe XML processing , CLIST, REXX , SAS, RDz and Web services interfacing with Mainframe environment.
Minimum experience and education: Candidates with a BS degree must have the minimum of 11 years or 132 months of work experience specific to the job description.
If a candidate has a Master’s degree, they still need a minimum of 11 years or 132 months of work experience but only nine years or 108 months of experience specific to the job. The other work experience to meet the 132 months does not have to be IT related.
Work experience while in college can be counted toward the overall years.
If no degree, work experience may be substituted.
Background clearance: All candidates selected will have to go through a Federal government background check prior to being able to start. Generally, the background process takes between 3,4 or 5 weeks. The time is dependent on how quickly the candidate is able to complete the paperwork.
Candidates will obtain a Public Trust clearance upon approval.