Job Details: Mainframe developer
| Job Title: | Mainframe developer |
| Job ID: | 13000 |
| Company: | ASAP Staffing LLC |
| Position Type: | Contract |
| Pay Rate: | DOE |
| Skills: | Endevor, VSAM, Db2,COBOL, JCL, Nan |
| Date Posted: | Apr-18-08 |
Mainframe developer
2 Months contract in Columbus, GA
Job Description:
Develops, maintains, and integrates application software, related project management activity, and production support, works closely with internal and external clients, business analysts, and team members to understand business requirements, develops and integrates application software, including unit testing and implementation efforts, continues to maintain and support software after implementation
Job Responsibilties:
Works on multiple projects at a time as a member of each project team, often as a project leader
Works on enterprise-wide small and large complex projects that require the highest level of expertise, participates on project teams, systems and data analysis, design, development, integration, and enhancement activities, as well as related maintenance and more complex production support.
Defines and develops the project scope of multiple complex projects with assistance from the project team and serves as the project point of contact when necessary.
Provides technical leadership and mentoring to application development teams.
Leads and/or participates in project-planning sessions with clients, business analysts, and team members to analyze development requirements, provide design recommendations for complex systems, and recommend methods and assignments.
Tests and implements cross-functional systems, ensuring system meets the needs of client and business.
Provides ongoing maintenance of mainframe and/or client/server applications or tools, depending upon previous involvement with projects.
Handles unresolved production support issues across multiple areas of expertise.
Provides design recommendations, develops application and custom integration solutions, including major enhancements and interfaces, writes complex design specifications.
Makes complex modifications to existing software applications and modules in accordance with high specifications and division standards, reviews effort to ensure compliance to application standards.
Develops new cross-functional software systems using disciplined software development processes, makes recommendations toward the development of reusable routines or components, including object-oriented base class reuse.
Translates business and technical requirements into cross-functional business application systems, providing custom integration solutions, including major system enhancements, collaborates in setting development guidelines
Prepares and presents status updates for various projects, serves as an individual contributor or technical lead
Performs other duties as required.
Education/Experience:
Bachelor's degree in programming/systems or computer science (preferred), specialized training, certification, and at least six or more years of programming/systems analysis experience, or at an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Microsoft MCSD (Certified Solutions Developer) (preferred for Distributed Developers).
Experience and understanding of multiple programming languages, systems, as well as systems and data design and project management methodologies (required).
Behavioral Competencies:
Analytical Thinking: Identifies the relationships between issues and situations not obvious to others in highly complex matters, determines alternative solutions, and evaluates the merit of each solution, can approach unfamiliar and unusual situations with ease while identifying a range of solutions, is often sought after as a resource by those outside of IT in addressing IT-related issues
Communication Results-Oriented: Presents information or ideas to the interests, level, and needs of the audience, actively engages participants and encourages input, uses group process skills to ensure that the agenda is met, promotes and facilitates free and open communication, adapts choice of language and presentation of ideas to fit various needs and perspectives of audiences.
Problem Solving: Anticipates problem areas and associated risk level, understands long term trends and implications of alternative approaches, coaches others in problem-solving techniques and methodologies.
Thoroughness: Sets specific, challenging goals that continually raise his/her level of detail orientation, works to facilitate methods that can increase work thoroughness yet reduce cycle time, unit cost, or defect rates, shares these methods with others.
Business Competencies:
Business Process Knowledge: Has an in-depth understanding of business process flows, demonstrates familiarity with business process re-engineering techniques and methods, can prepare and defend a business case for re-engineering a support process
Business Systems Planning: Provides input for development of business unit's strategic plan, understands the value and necessity of linking tactical planning to the strategic plan, understands how the function's business and technology plans contribute to the corporate strategic plan, supports the overall strategic business and systems goals of the organization, confidently incorporates information from customers and vendors throughout plan development
Quality Process Techniques: Develops quality process techniques for own area of work and other related areas, designs data collection methodologies for work expanded beyond own area of work, uses industry benchmarks as a way to continually improve performance, has advanced experience in all methods used to implement standards across the organization
Risk Management: Quickly assesses the tolerance for risk in multiple and unrelated situations, considers risk a challenge and understands that breakthroughs occur with higher degrees of risk, takes calculated, but challenging risks in most situations that require greater efforts
Specific Expertise:
Technical Skills (Mainframe Developer):
COBOL: Expert
COBOL II: Expert
COBOL II / DB2: Expert
Command level CICS: Intermediate
Assembler: Expert
Easytrieve: Intermediate
DB2: Intermediate
Mainframe Utilities (Esp. Sort / Merge): Expert
FileAid (and others): Advanced
Expeditor -- Batch: Advanced
Expeditor -- Online: Intermediate
JCL (Job Control Language): Expert
Required Skills:
Endevor
DB2
VSAM
MQ Series
Assembler
COBOL
JCL
NaN
| Location: [rss] | US-GA-Columbus |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
| Contact Name: | ASAP Staffing LLC |
| Contact Phone: | 678-919-9082 |
| Contact Email: | spatro@myasap.com |
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