Mainframe Integration Engineer

Mainframe Integration Engineer:

Opportunity: Play key role in Mainframe Platform Transformation:

The Mainframe Integration Engineering Team is responsible for the oversite, improvement and optimization of our Wealth Management Mainframe Plant. Our main services include; Performance & Analysis, Batch & Middleware Engineering, Test Data Management, Mainframe Infra Release oversight and planning, Application Release management L3 support, Standards and Compliance.

Position Description:

Performance

-identify performance tuning opportunities and provide recommendations; Identify long running Db2 Stored Procedures Identify optimization opportunities within the Batch/CICS/DB2

-Automate tooling in lower environments to proactively identify performance issues oL3 support for performance tests / application consulting Incident management

-Identify patterns for proactive prevention

-Enable / assist in RCA

-Tooling to support in prod and lower environments

-Developer Automated problem identification Batch Integration

-Improve overnight batch performance by flattening spikes during peak processing windows

-Identify opportunities to shift left overall Batch Stream

-Execute on various hygiene efforts within the plant (i.e. Storage cleanup) Governance & Best Practices

-Build a transparent framework of Governance Controls, Standards and Best Practices

-Educate application development partners on best practices

-Collaborate with Release Management and SDLC Teams to implement toll-gates Architecture

-Look for opportunities to convert Batch Processing to Straight Thru Processing

-Distribute read traffic to off platform Read Only Stores (ROS) Enable Mainframe Agile / Dev Ops

-Integration of IDE with Vendor Tools in support of CI/CD pipeline

-Update the Source Control Manager/Process (SCM) from Changeman to IBM DBB/UCD

Qualifications:

Proficient skills in one or more of the following:

-Cobol, CICS, JCL, DB2 SQL, REXX, MQ

Good to Have -

-Job Scheduling TWS, Autosys etc.

-Java, Python, .NET oSQL Server

-Splunk

-Modern design principles

-Exposure to Agile methodologies

-Cloud Technologies

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills

Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office technologies

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field of study or equivalent relevant experience in mainframe programming.