IT Developer III (Mainframe)

Customer Assistance Technology Solutions covers technical planning, integration, systems analysis, design, development, unit and component systems testing, deployment, support-maintenance, and more. Meaningful, effective relationship-building is part of what these highly-skilled experts do best as they work together with technology project managers, delivery partners, business and systems analysts, testing and quality assurance teams, sponsors and so many other stakeholders to deliver requirements.

Job Accountabilities

We are looking for someone to embrace a broad range of tasks associated with developing application and systems solutions to address business challenges.

• Develop new applications and perform unit / component test for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and in accordance with technology architecture standards
• Ensure effective communication of solutions development requirements for respective area and contribute to project plans, estimations, timelines and status updates to support management team / clients on prioritizing new and existing projects against IT requirements and business objectives
• Inform key stakeholders of any issues that may impact other areas of the project and resolve or escalate issues as required
• Support business enquiries and business activities through execution of small enhancements and break / fix implementations (e.g. source code changes)
• Work with Business Analysts / Systems Analysts, other technology Developers / Solution Designers to ensure the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals

• Create and maintain quality code, ensure defect free programming consistent with standards; provide code maintenance and support during testing cycles and post-production deployment and participate in reviewing peer coding
• Adhere to standard security coding practices to ensure application is free of most common coding vulnerabilities
• Contribute to project plans, estimations and status updates
• Participate in identifying and recommending development / testing solutions / tools in support of project / application objectives
• Completes unit and integration testing for conformance to standards and adherence to design specifications
• Comply with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines by participating in scope assessment, risk and cost analysis
• Assist in the development / maintenance of comprehensive processes for prevention of issues and participate in problem determination and timely resolution of incidents applying appropriate quality measures
• Provide technical support during Incident management, assisting with incident analysis, impact assessment, and recommending incident resolution

• Continuously enhance knowledge / expertise in own area and keep current with leading-edge technologies, emerging trends/developments and grow knowledge of the business, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques
• Prioritize and manage own workload in order to deliver quality results and meet timelines as assigned
• 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

Education and Experience requirements

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate
• 5-7 years relevant experience
• Mandatory Skillset: COBOL, IMS DB/DC, SAS, DB2, Smart Restart, CA-7, JCL, SQL, IBM OS/390, Z/OS, TSO, ISPF, QMF, SPUFI, CLIST, VSAM, File-aid, TIBCO, NDM, FTP, Endevor
• "Nice to have" Skillset: Netron Cap, Test Sets, Service Now, RC Secure, ICETOOLS, INSYNC, JAVA, Angular, VB Script, SSIS, SSRS, Spring, Springboot, Microservice, API, HTML5, Typescript, Maven

Additional Information

• Performs moderately complex to difficult technical tasks with others or independently
• Sound to advanced knowledge of the business, technical environment, processes, procedures, various programming languages and operating systems
• Works independently as an experienced developer and helps resolve complex issues, guide others within area of expertise
• Works on multiple medium to large sized projects
• Generally reports to an IT Manager or above