Senior Mainframe Developer

Company: Highbrow LLC
Location: New York
Posted on: November 8, 2024

Job Description:

This job opportunity is for employment type W2.
Candidates who are willing to apply must hold US work authorization.
Job Title: Senior Mainframe Developer
Job Location: South Florida, Mt Laurell, NJ, or Manhattan
Job Travel Location(s):
# Positions: 3
Employment Type: W2
Candidate Constraints:
Duration: Long Term
# of Layers: 0
Work Eligibility: All Work Authorizations are Permitted - No Visa Transfers
Key Technology: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SAS, MQ etc on z/OS
Job Responsibilities:

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• Transform business requirements and research into winning delivery solutions that meet performance goals.
  
• Rigorously build and test applications.
  
• Perform systems administration: monitor, configure, back-up, authenticate, tune.
  
• Aim for defect-free programming, create and maintain quality code, provide support during testing cycles and post-production deployment, engage in peer code reviews.
  
• Contribute to project plans, estimations and status updates.
  
• Identify issues, develop and maintain processes that address and resolve them, and communicate/alert stakeholders as needed.
  
• Primarily focus on day-to-day activities.
  
• Make enhancements and troubleshoot.
  
• Configure and develop custom components with technology partners (analysts, developers, designers etc.) to meet requirements and goals.
  
• Ensure applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities and follow standard security practices.
  
• Proactively put forward ideas that speak to project objectives (e.g. development, testing solutions, and tools).
  
• Complete unit and integration testing per standards and design specs.
  
• Take part in scope assessment, risk and cost analysis.
  
• Respect client's technology delivery practices and standards, project management disciplines.
  
• Stay on top of state-of-health monitoring and monthly SLA targets.
  
• Apply and share technical expertise during incident management life cycle (e.g. analyze reports and outages, perform impact assessments, facilitate stakeholder communication).
  
  Skills and Experience Required:
  Skills:
  
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  • COBOL
    
  • JCL
    
  • DB2
    
  • SAS
    
  • MQ
    
  • Jira, Confluence
    
    Experience:
    
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    • 7+ years of experience in developing mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2, SAS, MQ etc on z/OS.
      
    • Good understanding of Creational, Structural, Behavioral Design Patterns, architecture patterns, Application, and Integration architectures.
      
    • Good understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, etc.).
      
    • Ability to work in a global organization with stakeholders.
      
      Desired Skills:
      
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      • API
        
      • MS Azure Cloud Computing
        
      • Running Docker containers
        
      • Knowledge on Mainframe Tools e.g., IDz, ZDT, ADDI, PD tool, IMS Explorer for Development
        
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Keywords: Highbrow LLC, West Babylon , Senior Mainframe Developer, IT / Software / Systems , New York, New York