Mainframe Developer

Job description

·  Job Description:

Essential Job Functions

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Designs, develops, installs, tests and documents complex database applications software, including server, client, and web components. 

·  Contributes to the design and delivery of technical architecture solution components.  
·  Provides work guidance to less experienced personnel.  Leads development teams in providing flexible reusable components in designs.  Provides highly complex design documents and translates into component-level designs to accelerate development.  
·  Develops strategy, design and data gathering approaches. Leads development team efforts to provide flexible reusable components to increase cost effectiveness.
·  Analyzes, designs and reviews design of applications and suites of applications to ensure that customer specifications are satisfied.
·  Oversees relationships between application architects and development teams to ensure that product development and implementation are coordinated.
·  Leads product development teams and senior designers in developing design requirements that are accurate and relevant to company needs.
·   Recommends and implements alternative courses of action as appropriate to meet requirement needs.
·   Reviews and analyzes gathered information in technical research; evaluates tools and methodologies to ensure that designs adhere to current industry, client, and company standards.  
·  Develops and provides technical documentation, participates and oversees test-plan development, integration and deployment.  
·  Oversees business process work sessions, project meetings and joint applications development sessions to ensure that product design decisions are communicated to departmental personnel.
·  Functions as a domain expert and works closely with software developers to explain the application design, and coordinates activities between the two functions to enhance product quality and efficiency.
·  Conducts analysis to determine feasibility of approaches.  
·  Utilizes experience in development methodologies, coding documentation, testing methodology and industry standards to define and develop project requirements, functional specifications and detailed design of application solutions for clients.
·  Provides leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel.  Guides the work of less experienced developers to create, maintain and communicate details of application designs to ensure that designs are according to specifications.  
·  Provides technical consulting on complex projects.  Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time and form of desired results.  Determines and recommends alternative approaches as needed, and implements as appropriate.  
·  Skills:
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Use of COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, ChangeMan, MQ Series, File-AID, and Xpeditor

Requirements:  

Bachelor’s degree plus 10 years progressive experience.  Skills required:  COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, ChangeMan, File-AID, and Xpeditor required