Mainframe Developer

Kforce has a client in Westlake, TX that is seeking a Mainframe Developer. Responsibilities:

• Performs as a full stack engineer, including requirements gathering, development, and testing
• Participates in architecture design teams and help define and implement application level architecture
• Develops applications on sophisticated projects, components, and subsystems for the division
• Recommends development testing tools and methodologies and reviews and validates test plans
• Responsible for QA readiness
• Plans and conducts system testing
• Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems
• Establishes project plans for complex projects across multiple platforms
• Plans and coordinates project schedules and assignments
• Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues
• Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives
• Advises senior management on technical strategy and mentors junior team members
• Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several divisional initiatives
• Determine opportunities to innovate and provide solutions to the existing Process by Automation
• Bachelor's degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or five (5) years of experience performing mainframe brokerage and stock plan services systems application development
• Demonstrated Expertise (-DE-) performing mainframe application development, test automation, and support, using COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, MQ-Series, Java, Web Services, and SQL
• Experience in the development and deployment of Batch and CICS applications
• Demonstrated experience performing mainframe application development - file format and comparison - using File-aid; Performing version management using Endeavor; Debugging and unit testing, using Intertest and Abend-Aid; and scheduling jobs using Control-M
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and crafting data flows for mainframe application development
• Demonstrated experience performing mainframe application development and performance tuning within TSO and MVS operating system environments; Developing applications, using Endevor, Git, ClearCase (for version control), Control-M (for scheduling), Abend-AID and Intertest (for debugging), File-Aid (for browsing), and Easytrieve (for report generation), and conducting performance tuning and capacity planning - reducing I/Os, CPU Time, MSUs, and MIPs - using Strobe, iStrobe, Platinum Detector, and TMON
• Experience in open source technologies like Python