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Detailed Job Description:

• Transform business requirements and research into winning delivery solutions that meet performance goals.
• Rigorously build and test applications
• 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 be sure to 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.
• Respect clients 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. analyzes reports and outages, perform impact assessments, facilitate stakeholder communication).

Accountabilities:

• Be accountable for complex applications/systems development, programming /coding.
• Provide estimates for new projects and initiatives for the development / design components working with relevant team members / stakeholders.
• Develop applications that meets the defined requirements (business, enterprise architecture direction, system performance and development standards)
• Review technical deliverables throughout detailed design and development phase to ensure quality adherence and identify gaps or redesign requirements as needed.
• Comply with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines, business technology architecture, and risk and production capacity - including development of project documentation of system requirements, estimates of scope and cost.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review signoffs for solution design.
• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation, and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness, and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team.
• Establish effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program, and project managers.
• Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units.
• Performs complex to difficult technical tasks independently.
• Ensure design leverages existing reusable components and has traceability to business requirements and ensure new modules are designed with reusability.
• Provide technical support for escalated incidents / outages to ensure that they are resolved efficiently with minimal impact to stakeholders.
• Prioritize and manage own workload to deliver quality results and meet timelines.

Skills:

• COBOL
• JCL/CA7 Scheduling tool/Endevor
• VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method)
• SAS
• Jira, Confluence
• ServiceNow (Incidents Management)
• Attentive to detail
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organized, self-motivated and customer oriented
• Positive attitude
• A person that can work independently or in groups

Required:

• Bachelors degree, preferably in a Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent field
• 7+ Years of hands-on experience developing mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, SAS, VSAM, CA7/Endevor.
• In depth knowledge of mainframe technologies including tools to trouble-shoot technical problems
• Good understanding of Creational, Structural, Behavioral Design Patterns, architecture patterns, Application, and Integration architectures
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies
• Financial Industry experience preferred.
• Business analytical skills

Desired:

• CICS (Customer Information Control System)