Mainframe CICS System Programmer

Job Description:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• As a Subject matter expert provide direct technical support as needed in the planning, coordination, installation, implementation and testing of releases, upgrades, or changes to CICS and related ISV products. 

• Capable of Upgrading/Installing and Migrating CICS Transaction servers

• Capable of Upgrading /Installing and supporting IBM & ISV related Products                         for Eg :  Compuware Abend/aid , ASG TMON/CICS. Omegamon for CICS, BMC Mainview, Xpediter/CICS, CA ACF2/CICS, CA Intertest, CA Symdump. 

• Primary on call support for CICS and associated ISV products for  eg :  Compuware Abend/aid , ASG TMON/CICS. Omegamon for CICS, BMC Mainview, Compuware Xpediter/CICS, CA ACF2/CICS, CA Intertest, CA Symdump. 

• Diagnose CICS system and related product issues and follow up with root cause analysis 

• Participate in Disaster Recovery planning and tests as scheduled 

• Knowledge about the CICS functionality and architecture

Required Skills: 

• Engineer with 5 Plus years’ experience systems programming experience 

• Basic Knowledge on the following technologies: z/OS, Unix System Services, SMP/E, REXX, Java, VSAM, Third party products 

• Experience in CICS transaction server, related ISV products. 

Additional Requirements 

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a IT related field or equivalent work experience 

• Process driven management of technical operations and support. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

• The ability to work independently as well as part of a team. 

• Excellent troubleshooting and customer service skills. 

• The ability to follow a project through to completion, and/or to work as part of a larger team to complete the components of a complex project. 

• Participate in on-call rotation with the engineering teams. 

Other Preferred Qualifications 

• Banking or financial services industry experience. 

• Knowledge of Assembler, COBOL, CICS, and Db2