This role will assume team technical leadership responsibilities of providing oversight and mentoring of new or lower-level developers as well as all members of the team.  This individual may also be required to work some off hour shifts and be on call.  This job offers the opportunity to continue to expand and improve mainframe skills while being fiscally responsible.

Initial contract funding is for 1 year, but a longer 3-5 year engagement is anticipated.

Responsibilities

• Experience in all aspects of SDLC including specification development, design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance of complex mainframe applications.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with others and lead others through change.

• Analyze current operations and procedures;  evaluate and select practical alternatives and present them to the users; produce design specifications of the selected alternatives; and obtain user approval of selected alternatives

• Schedule and coordinate the development, testing, and implementation of systems

• Preparation and maintenance of technical documentation

• Communicate accurate and useful status updates.

• Manage and report time spent on all work activities.

• Ability to work in a team environment

• Ability to comprehend complex technical and logical concepts and adapt quickly to changes

• Strong quantitative, analytics, problem solving and organizational skills are required

• Attention to detail and maintaining high quality standards is a must

• Ability to prioritize and manage concurrent projects, demonstrate initiative and work independently with minimal supervision.