What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mainframe System Specialist position at Apollo ITS?
Title : Mainframe System Specialist
Location : Salem, OR (Remote)
Duration : 8 Months
Type : Contract
Notes : work in PST time (Shift : 8 am - 5 pm)
Job description :
The purpose of this request is to procure mainframe software development services for Client's Commerce & Compliance Application Development (CCAD) team.
The primary tasks the contractor shall perform are as follows :
- Provide C# software development efforts related to CCAD initiatives.
- Provide COBOL software development efforts related to CCAD initiatives.
- Provide JCL development related to mainframe work.
- Provide CICS development related to mainframe work.
- Provide coding to access DB2 DBMS.
- Provide coding to access SQL Server DBMS.
- Conduct reverse engineering of current state systems.
- Create current state and future state process documentation.
- Use a variety of information gathering techniques (e.g., interviews, facilitation, diagrams) to gather, define and document complex business data requirements from business teams.
- Identify areas for improvement in current systems.
- Conduct, document and present impact analyses.
- Create and manage requirements.
- Create and support the creation of functional specifications for data models, customizations, extracts, and reports.
- Create implementation documentation and support the implementation process.
- Develop design changes in the asset management software and development and testing environments and collaborate integration into the existing business production environment with the rest of the team.
- Plan and support data cleanup activities.
- Prepare test data, implement and support test activities including the creation of test plans and test cases; test enhancements and track results.
- Plan and support user acceptance testing.
- Coordinate with other team members to reach project milestones and deadlines.
- Engage and build strong working relationships with IT, business partners.
- Conduct remote training (for business and technical audiences).
- Troubleshoot issues, determine causes and provide options for fixing the issues.
- Experience with .NET technologies like framework and C# (mandatory)
- Experience with mainframe technologies like JCL, CICS, COBOL (mandatory)
- Ability to create software design documentation (mandatory)
- DB2 skills, with SQL understanding (mandatory)
- MS SQL skills, with SQL understanding (mandatory)
- Business analysis requirements gathering (desirable)
- Strong communication skills (desirable)
- Testing of design and development (desirable)
- Familiarity with data science tools, such as Python
- Ability to work remotely
- Ability to complete work without direct supervision
- Familiarity with automating processes
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