Mainframe Developer

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Mainframe Developer to join our team in Plano, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

Job Responsibilities Include:

• Provide thought & technical leadership for the key initiatives.
• Developing and maintaining architecture solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data.
• Setting, communicating, and reinforcing technical standards
• Providing leadership for junior and senior engineers alike, by understanding how to leverage and enhance their current skills
• Assessing and researching current implementations of the platform and determining the course of action required to elevate the platform to meet customer needs.
• Working with Operations to plan major infrastructure upgrades, to troubleshoot issues and to tune the environment for optimal performance and uptime
• Collaborating with peers and management on process improvement ideas, policy and procedure enhancements, and opportunities to improve our customer's service experience.
• Participating in code review and unit testing and providing support on issues in non-prod or production

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years on CICS, COBOL, DB2, VSAM and JCL.
• 5+ years CICS System knowledge would be valuable.

Preferred Skills:

• Good understanding of CICS Dynamic Transaction Routing process.

• Should be familiar with DB2 tools, File-Aid, scheduler and debugger tools.

• Understanding of Distributed Applications/ System

• Exposure to Brokerage/Finance domain will be an added advantage

• Prior experience of working in highly transactional, fault tolerant and data driven systems.

• Ability to identify areas of risk or potential problems and take action to mitigate them and work with less experienced staff to mitigate more complex issues.

• Ability to apply different communication and leadership styles for different teams and geographies.

• Ability to lead through influence and know what data is needed to drive effective decisions

• Ability to assess and plan project, and stakeholders needs, and manage deadlines, risks.

• Ability to anticipate roadblocks, diagnose problems and generate effective solutions