Mainframe Business Analyst

Ontario (ON)  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Mainframe Business Analyst

Job Title: Mainframe BA

Company: Direct IT Recruiting Inc.

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Status: 1 year contract

Job Category: Technical Business Analyst, Mainframe

Career Level: Senior

Work Experience: 5+ years as a BA or BSA, Mainframe Batch Automation Scheduling, CA-7, BatchRunner, Agile

Industry: Financial

DESCRIPTION:

- Seeking a strong Technical Systems Analyst with business acumen to assist project team to align Business expectations to Technical solutions.

- The successful candidate will be technically savvy with Mainframe, Middleware, and Open Systems concepts, and should be able to quantify both technical and functional impact of affected modifications.

SKILLS:

- Excellent Communication Skills

- Working experience with Mainframe, Middleware developer background

- Proven working experience as a Business Analyst (5+ years as a BA or BSA)

- Proven working experience as a Systems Analyst

- Working experience using Agile methodology (3+ years with Agile)

- Working experience within fast paced environment

- Ability to work both independently, and within team atmosphere

- Strong analytical and technical skills

- Strong project management and organization skills

- Strong Vendor Management skills

- 3+ years scheduling (CAD, CA-7 and/or BatchRunner) experience

- 2+ years Mainframe System Automation

- General Mainframe, Windows and UNIX knowledge

- Detail oriented

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Technical Systems Analysis

- Fill in Data/Process flow templates

- Build Data/Process flow diagrams

- Perform Technical/Functional feasibility studies

- Communicate with business partners, obtaining their sign-offs

- Work with developers, Batch Schedulers, operational staff, other SMEs

- Illustrate subject matter expertise in the workload automation space with a complete knowledge of the enterprise scheduler environment

- Lead and perform enterprise scheduler schedule updates

- Responsible for delivering business automation improvements and maximizing the utilization of Enterprise Scheduling

- 2+ years Mainframe Automation Software

- Provide expertise to users and leadership on complex batch processes

- Provide application teams with support on problem determination and resolution of scheduling issues.

- Ability to be a technical interface between engineering and database teams to provide innovative and efficient approach to scheduling complex batch processes

- Create reports and presentation materials related to scheduling

- Document all aspects of the batch schedule

- Follow industry trends and software developments to assist in creating a roadmap for the Enterprise Scheduling group

- Ensure Service Level Agreements are met for applications supported

- Follow up on production control issues from daily change requests

- Ensure daily scheduling requests are completed accurately and on time

- Support Disaster Recovery tests

- Familiarity in managing within a compliance framework

Start date
Immediately
Duration
1 Year
From
Direct IT Recruiting INC.
Published at
05.11.2015
Project ID:
1014212
Contract type
Freelance
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