Description
Are you a Raleigh-Durham, NC senior Mainframe Programmer/Analyst with deep experience in the Financial Services space? Our client has and immediate 6+ month contract requirement for a senior level Mainframe engineer/developer to provide expert knowledge in Mainframe technologies for software development. Emphasis of the position will be a senior level contributor in several key technologies. The candidate is expected to perform tasks such as: analysis of current and future application and infrastructure requirements, coding and testing of Mainframe software components, vendor software evaluation, design consulting and significant performance engineering and testing.
The successful candidate must be able to develop scalable and creative technical solutions in close collaboration with application and architecture teams. Working with a geographically dispersed team, this individual will complete software development projects by the agreed upon target date with the highest level of quality, using appropriate development methodologies. It will be expected that the person will write clear and concise documentation for all phases of the assigned projects.
This role of this position is to create or enhance complex infrastructure and Mainframe engineering operations and requires skills beyond traditional application development.
Required Skills include:
- 10+ years technical and analytical experience as a engineer/developer with demonstrated achievements in Mainframe systems technologies is a firm requirement. This includes in-depth experience working with sophisticated files, file layouts, and databases with VSAM, DB2, CICS, Cobol, JCL, and performance engineering across these disciplines.
- Must have experience in advanced CICS topics (Configuration Management with CICS-CM, Coupling Facility Data Tables, MVS DataSpaces (UMT/CMT), Channels and Containers, SMF, CPSM, Dynamic Transaction Routing, Performance Tuning expertise, and significant expertise in capacity planning topics).
- Should have some/deep experience in MQ Series on z/OS (Clusters, Shared Queue Groups, Security, Performance considerations, and integration with non-Mainframe Queue Managers).
- Must have strong VSAM expertise (Share options, Catalog Management, Buffer Pool optimization techniques, etc).
- Strong self-starting skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
Preferred Skills include:
- Experience or demonstrable knowledge in replication technologies (QREP or RRDF) is a plus.
- Additional understanding or experience using RLS, CAFC, and VSHARE with VSAM files is preferred.
- CICS Web Services internals.
- Assembler coding skills.
- Infrastructure/Architecture design experience.
- z/OS Workload Management (WLM) features and services experience.
No travel and a business casual environment. Please respond today!
Application Requirements- Client will not accept subcontractors
- MVS IBM
- Cobol
- MQ Series
- DB2
- JCL
- Z/OS
- CICS IBM
- VSAM IBM
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- and Life Insurance for Full-time W2 Consultants. Supplemental Disability and Long-Term Care Insurance
- Dependent Care Assistance. 401(k) with Roth feature. Free E-learning Courses