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Dear Partner,

Hope you are doing great !!

My name is Nikhil and I represent Virtual Networx Inc., a staff augmentation firm providing a wide-range of talent on-demand and Contingent workforce solutions. We have excellent domain expertise in all verticals. Repositioning professionals is what we do, and we do it very well.

Please find the below job description and let me know if you have any suitable profiles along with their visa and photo IDs. Feel free to call me or email me if you have any questions.

Role                 : Mainframe Developer

Location          : Remote

Experience      : 12+

Duration          : 12+ Months

Summary:

Candidate MUST have a minimum of 10 years of experience in multiple IT areas and 2–3 years of relevant architecture experience. Candidate must have advanced to expert level knowledge and understanding of architecture, applications systems design and integration, specifically Tibco Mainframe FOCUS and JCL, mainframe batch schedulers, chaining jobs between predecessors and dependents, and column delimited flat text file structures are required for this position.

Must have experience with Cool GEN, COBOL, DB2 z/OS, and DB2 Database.   

Primary Job Duties/ Tasks:

• Analyze and document existing computing assets, including technical specifications and established business rules.
• Assist with debugging and troubleshooting existing processes when needed.

• Diagnose and resolve issues after performing root cause analysis.

• Provide guidance and assist with remediating and upgrading legacy assets.

• Coordinate with business analysts, other developers, and products owners to remediate to the new state-wide accounting system.
• Coordinate with database administrators in analyzing and remediating existing data structures.

• Participate in code and design reviews to ensure quality and performance.
• Perform knowledge transfer with technical staff of the office of the Comptroller.
• Read and document Mainframe FOCUS queries and convert them to T-SQL queries.
• Convert Focus mainframe programs using mainframe flat files as a data source to use database tables instead.

Job Specific Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

FOCUS:

• Experience with master files.
• Experience with complex queries involving multiple data sources.
• Experience with reading, creating, and updating flat files.
• Experience with multiple include statements.

JCL:

• Reading, editing, and creating JCL jobs.
• Experience with reading, creating, and editing flat files.
• Experience with running multiple programs from single JCL jobs.
• Experience with multiple RC Types
• Experience with scheduling JCL jobs as well as reviewing executed jobs.
• Experience with submitting ad-hoc jobs.

Applications Development KSAs:

• Knowledge of the SCRUM Framework.
• Knowledge of financial systems such as an ERP.
• Experience with Entity Relationship Diagrams.
• Experience with documenting and communicating technical requirements.
• Experience in coordinating with Business Analysts to capture business requirements.
• Ability to bridge the gap between technical and business language.

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in a field of study related to technology or finance. Work experience can substitute on a year for year basis for the degree.

Please forward your resume to [email protected] LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nikhil-reddy-ankila-9431b3140

If for any reason this does not interest you or you know someone who would fit this requirement better, please consider this email as a request for referrals and feel free to forward it to the right contender.