Position: Senior Mainframe Engineer
Location: Weehawken, NJ - 5 days per week onsite
Must Have:
• No H1B Visas
• All candidates must be available to start working onsite within 2-3 weeks of accepting an offer.
• Must be a direct employee/contractor of your company - Can not have another employer layer.
• 5+ Years of COBOL
• 2+ years of DB2
• 2+ Years of JCL
• Recent Experience with handling back-office operations of financial brokerage services.
Project Description
Our program was started as the migration of the financial instruments trading legacy mainframe system to a new technical, highly-scalable platform. The success of the program in both the migration and creation of a scalable platform led to it being selected as the strategic platform providing full-scale of advisory services for one of the biggest financial institutions in the world. This has led to significant further investment for legacy system migrations and technical improvements. Currently we have teams across several locations (Weehawken, Wroclaw) on those projects.
Reengineer set of existing applications and introduce additional application interface layer, allowing to query underlying data from third-party applications
Responsibilities:
- Trace batch jobs and document -- Visio knowledge is a plus
- Code Batch jobs and install run schedule -- written requirements will be provided
- Analyze data to address defects related to his/her code
- Maintain JIRA/RLC tickets -- for deployment, updating JIRA tasks, etc
- Be a team player to assist other team members in whatever tasks are pending
Skills Must have:
- Experience with handling financial data, back-office operations of financial brokerage services
- Extensive exposure to data-driven processes which require tracing program flows and being able to figure out processing requirements from mainframe program code
- Minimum 7+ years of experience who are experienced with mainframe batch job implementation using JCL, COBOL, PROC, SORT
- Experience in writing DB2 stored procs
- We are also looking for a developer who asks questions with a 'learning' attitude
Nice to have
Agile Scrum
Jira Confluence