Job Description: Mainframe Developer

Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid (4 Days WFO)
Duration: 6-12 months
Experience Required: 8-10 yrs
Primary Skill: Mainframe DB2 - Application Development

Role Descriptions: What will you do?

• Assisting in translating business needs into technical requirements.
  
• Performing all required tasks to ensure technical availability.
  
• Assisting in interpreting operational results.
  
• Analyzing usage patterns and establishing schedules and procedures for maximum utilization of the system.
  
• Maintaining reports and reporting tools for traffic management, service centers and enterprise partners.
  
• Interacting with other organizations to develop solutions for anticipated technical needs in support of business objectives.
  
• Analyze, define and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, interface with other systems, internal and external checks, controls, and outputs
  
• Provide cost and time estimates for assigned work packages to support the development of time tables and project plans
  
• Coordinate coding, testing, implementation, integration and documentation of solution
  
• Act as a technical solution provider (subject matter expert) to provide solutions that potentially impact other dependent projects and applications
  

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Mainframe expert with 10+ years hand-on experience
  
• 5+ years on mainframe application support experience
  
• zOS
  
• MVS/TSO/ISPF
  
• JCL
  
• IMS /DB/DC
  
• CICS
  
• DB2
  
• VSAM
  
• COBOL
  
• ZEKE
  
• File-AID or File-Manager
  
• IDZ
  
• GitHub/Jenkins/UCD
  
• Scheduling Mainframe batch jobs through schedulers like CA7 and BMC Control-M.
  
• Experience on SoapUI
  

Nice-to-have

• Experience on MQ
  
• WAS
  
• SPUFI
  
• XPEDITER
  
• REXX/CLIST
  
• DevOps
  
• OnDemand
  
• Server experience with 3+ years on Windows server
  
• Experience with DVM
  
• WinSCP