Senior Mainframe Consultant
Information Technology company
Information Technology company
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Jacksonville, FL 32256
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Role:
This is an opportunity for an accomplished Senior Mainframe developer to join a well-established and capable team building award winning Insurance solutions. This person will build applications working with the Commissions & Policy system and should be familiar with the third-party applications many Insurance Providers work with.The candidate must have experience participating in and beginning to lead teams within a Mainframe development environment.
Responsibilities:
- Maintains knowledge on current and emerging developments/trends for assigned area(s) of responsibility, assesses the impact, and collaborates with senior management to incorporate new trends and developments in current and future solutions.
- Directs and enhances organizational initiatives by positively influencing and supporting change management and/or departmental/enterprise initiatives within assigned area(s) of responsibility.
- Identifies and directs the implementation of process improvements that significantly improve quality across the team, department and/or business unit for his/her assigned area(s) of responsibility.
- Provides subject matter expertise to team members and applicable internal/external stakeholders on complex assignments/projects for his/her assigned area(s) of responsibility.
- Provides direction on complex assignments, projects, and/or initiatives to build and enhance the capability of his/her assigned area(s) of responsibility.
- Provides direction to development teams in areas of project scheduling, technical direction and application development standards.
- Assesses and measures solution design impacts on IT infrastructure capacity, application architecture standards, future maintenance/support needs, and bottom line cost-benefits in consultation with appropriate internal stakeholders.
- Serves as a subject matter expert &/or provides direction on the design & development of applications systems while demonstrating an understanding of the broad implications & financial impacts of proposed solutions on operational & infrastructure support.
- Serves as an escalation point for issue resolution.
- Analyzes, designs, codes, debugs, integrates and tests complex software application solutions for systems.
- Identifies potential application solutions by understanding complex business/technical problems and opportunities.
- Provides input on the development of project plans, test plans and implementation plans including determining estimates on time frames, needed resources and budgets.
- Creates more complex technical specifications from business requirements/business specifications.
- Provides expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business.
- Partners with internal stakeholders to ensure that systems are designed, developed and implemented from a business point of view.
- Investigates and resolves complex problems including providing support for production systems in a timely manner.
- Proactively identifies problems and presents/develops complex solutions
- Communicates effectively with internal stakeholders and management.
- Serves as a technical expert and provides complex technical guidance to junior team members.
- Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented.
- Serves as lead technical resource to ensure completion of development tasks.
Education:
- 4 Year/Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (4 years of experience in lieu of Bachelor's) in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology or Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience (Minimum Required)
Experience:
- 5-7+ years of experience in information systems environment
- Proven skills with IMS DB, VSAM, Object Star, UAX, FOCUS and Endevor source management system.
- Extensive knowledge of Insurance with Commissions & Policy experience.
- Ability to communicate effectively with business users and system team members.
- Enthusiasm for challenge and change in a team environment.
- 5-7 Years’ experience in application development that directly aligns with the specific responsibilities for this position (Required)
Skills
Skill | Proficiency | Years Experience | Percent Used |
---|---|---|---|
IMS | 3 - 6 | 100% | |
Application Development | Any | 75% | |
CICS | Any | 75% | |
FOCUS | Any | 75% | |
IMS DBDC | Any | 75% | |
UAX | Any | 75% | |
VSAM | Any | 75% | |
VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) | Any | 75% | |
Applications Architecture | Any | 25% | |
Database Design | Any | 25% | |
Database Maintenance | Any | 25% | |
IMS DBDGEN | Any | 25% | |
Mainframe Communication Protocols | Any | 25% | |
Object Star | Any | 25% | |
Process Improvement | Any | 25% | |
Technical Specifications | Any | 25% |