Lead Mainframe Developer

Overview

• Software development engineering in client code application is a dedicated team of software developers leading the development transformation and working to facilitate best DevOps practices across client’s technology organization. This position supports the Payment Networks Clearing-GCMS software development function.
• Requires hands on experience in industry standard developer tools, design, develop, test, implement and support the solutions throughout the software development cycle

Job Duties:

• Lead planning, design & technical solutions to meet business requirements in adherence with client standards, processes and best practices.
• Lead day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market.
• Accountable for full systems development life cycle including creating high quality requirements documents, use-cases, design and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates.
• Perform system maintenance, production incident problem management, identification of root cause, remediation of the problems and on-call pager support schedule. Select appropriate technical frameworks and solution delivery methodology.
• Adapt to the technical artifact templates per the needs of the project and technology. Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place. Maintain solution and technology road maps.
• Research and evaluate current and upcoming technologies and frameworks.
• Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the Department with selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks.
• Collaborate with Vendor Resources for Support of Products.
• Follow and promote Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department. Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency. Mentor and guide other team members during all phases of the SDLC. Ensure adequate test coverage in Unit Testing, System Testing/Integration
• Testing and Performance Testing. Perform Quality Inspections and Walkthroughs throughout the SDLC including Requirements Review, Design Review, Code Review and Security Review to ensure compliance with client standards.

Requirements:

• IT experience in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Exposure in technologies in mainframe such as JCL, DB2, COBOL, File-Aid-DB2, STROBE , XPEDITER , ENDEVOR , OPC scheduler , TWS scheduler (Required)
• High-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment (Required)
• Provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Possesses strong communication skills - both verbal and written, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of diverse and geographically distributed project team.
• Ability to create automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration and deployment pipeline (Jenkins/XLR) and code coverage tools (Sonar, Clover) to ensure higher code/conditional coverage. (Preferred)
• Experience in working in Agile Methodology. (Preferred)
• Knowledge in migrating from mainframe to Cloud/micro-services. (Preferred)
• Experience of working with other developers to ensure that systems are designed for reliability, performance and testability.(Preferred)
• Domain knowledge in Core Payments specifically around Knowledge in Transaction processing (Preferred)

Job Types: Contract, Temporary

Pay: $60.00 - $62.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to Commute:

• O'Fallon, MO 63366 (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• O'Fallon, MO 63366: Relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $60 - $62