Sr. Mainframe Developer

• Transform business requirements and research into winning delivery solutions that meet performance goals.
• Rigorously build and test applications
• Aim for defect-free programming, create, and maintain quality code, provide support during testing cycles and post-production deployment, engage in peer code reviews.
• Contribute to project plans, estimations, and status updates.
• Identify issues, develop, and maintain processes that address and resolve them, (and be sure to communicate/alert stakeholders as needed).
• Primarily focus on day-to-day activities.
• Make enhancements and troubleshoot.
• Configure and develop custom components with technology partners (analysts, developers, designers etc.) to meet requirements and goals.
• Ensure applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities (and follow standard security practices).
• Proactively put forward ideas that speak to project objectives (e.g. development, testing solutions, and tools).
• Complete unit and integration testing per standards and design specs.
• Respect client’s technology delivery practices and standards, project management disciplines.
• Stay on top of state-of-health monitoring and monthly SLA targets.
• Apply and share technical expertise during incident management life cycle (e.g. analyzes reports and outages, perform impact assessments, facilitate stakeholder communication).

Accountabilities:

• Be accountable for complex applications/systems development, programming /coding.
• Provide estimates for new projects and initiatives for the development / design components working with relevant team members / stakeholders.
• Develop applications that meets the defined requirements (business, enterprise architecture direction, system performance and development standards)
• Review technical deliverables throughout detailed design and development phase to ensure quality adherence and identify gaps or redesign requirements as needed.
• Comply with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines, business technology architecture, and risk and production capacity - including development of project documentation of system requirements, estimates of scope and cost.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and supporting gating and review signoffs for solution design.
• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation, and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness, and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team.
• Establish effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program, and project managers.
• Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units.
• Performs complex to difficult technical tasks independently.
• Ensure design leverages existing reusable components and has traceability to business requirements and ensure new modules are designed with reusability.
• Provide technical support for escalated incidents / outages to ensure that they are resolved efficiently with minimal impact to stakeholders.
• Prioritize and manage own workload to deliver quality results and meet timelines.

Skills:

• COBOL
• JCL/CA7 Scheduling tool/Endevor
• VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method)
• SAS
• Jira, Confluence
• ServiceNow (Incidents Management)
• Attentive to detail
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organized, self-motivated and customer oriented
• Positive attitude
• A person that can work independently or in groups

Required:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in a Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent field
• 7 Years of hands-on experience developing mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, SAS, VSAM, CA7/Endevor.
• In depth knowledge of mainframe technologies including tools to trouble-shoot technical problems
• Good understanding of Creational, Structural, Behavioral Design Patterns, architecture patterns, Application, and Integration architectures
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies
• Financial Industry experience preferred.
• Business analytical skills

Desired:

• CICS (Customer Information Control System)

GalaxE is a professional IT services firm that specializes in platform-driven solutions and the use of automation to achieve enterprise business transformation and mission-critical change for some of the largest companies in the world. Using our proprietary solution set, GxFource®, we apply machine learning techniques and predictive analytics tools as part of a broad artificial intelligence strategy that provides effective impact and data-driven business transformation.

Since its founding, GalaxE has been dedicated to advancing the benefits of technology. As we continue that legacy and look to the future, a focus on business enablement through agile, cost-efficient, and effective integration of people, process, and technology anchors our success. We revolutionize change in the costs of doing business that transform companies and their ability to leap beyond the competition.

At GalaxE we value people and are committed to diversity and inclusion where our employees are made to feel comfortable and are encouraged to be authentic. We focus on cultivating both traditional IT and non-traditional, new collar, workers through our Outsource to America®, program.

We are always looking for passionate, entrepreneurial-minded innovators and disrupters; game-changers that take ownership of the work they produce and bring it each and every day. Working with like-minded team members you will get a chance to discover, develop, and use cutting-edge technologies to transform the way we deliver creative business solutions.

Sound like you? Join us and find out for yourself what it means for you, and your career, to be part of the GalaxE team. Let’s build something, together. #WeAreGalaxE

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of remaining stationary at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift to 15 lbs., as needed
• Must be able to work on-site (corporate/client offices), as needed (not applicable for 100% remote roles)
• Occasionally required to bend, kneel, crouch, and reach overhead.
• Hand-eye coordination necessary to operate computers and various pieces of office equipment.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, the ability to tolerate fluorescent lighting, and the ability to adjust focus.

Employees must be able to perform the physical requirements of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees requiring accommodations to perform the essential functions of their jobs, absent undue hardship.

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