Candidate will work independently on high-profile projects with the potential to lead several senior developers. Extensive customer interaction and substantial written reporting due to the involvement of project meetings and code development activities involving multiple stakeholders. The successful candidate should be well versed in IBM System Utilities with prior experience with Systems Development.
Skills Requirements:
-Proven senior-level technical and application development knowledge of IBM Mainframe applications with extensive programming experience using JCL, DB2, REXX, Control-M, Dialog Manager, XML Parsing in COBOL, COBOL (CICS and DB2), CICS MRO, DPL, MQ Series, and VSAM.
-Proven Project Management skills. Ability to lead small teams.
-Proven experience with analysis, documentation, development, testing, and implementation.
-Senior-level DB2 (SQL) programming experience to enable analysis of code written by others.
-Excellent customer relations, and verbal and written skills.
-Self-starter, highly motivated individual; team player who can adapt to changes in customer requirements.
-Experience in IBM z/OS (OS/390/MVS) application development, production control, and job scheduling.
-Experience developing and maintaining JCL and related entities for application software systems.
-Experience in industry accepted SDLC practices.
Education/Work Experience:
BA/BS degree + 11 years of IT experience at various levels of Mainframe DB2 DBA and performance and tuning activities.