Software Developer - z/OS

Introduction

IBM is seeking highly motivated individuals with prior mainframe experience to join our CIO BPT Delivery team. As a Software Developer, you will be part of a team supporting an IBM Financially Significant Application. You will work in an agile, collaborative environment with primary focus on development and production support.

Your Role And Responsibilities

Software Developers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today - planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our application developers do. Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client, software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

Your Primary Responsibilities Include

• Provide production support when financial application batch runs and be able to resolve the production issues
• Collaborating with interface applications, team members and business analysts to translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Involved in the Business Requirements gathering wherein the client’s business process is studied in detail. Active participation in discovery and design sessions
• Business Requirements is understood and analyzed by having frequent interaction with various user levels to understand their requirements
• Involve in mapping of clients business requirements to the applications to come out with a clear cut picture of out of box functionalities, workarounds and customizations
• Create Unit Test Case
• Create application programs and jobs
• Unit test and document the results
• Handling Technical issues, Involve in Code reviews, mentoring the team members
• Involve in deployment build on UAT and Production Env. , maintain to versioning of code and Involve in verification and validation activity for the deliverable
• Involve in support and adhoc request, provide end-to end solution for all kind of support and maintenance issues
  
  

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Minimum 3+ years of hands on experience in applications development using Mainframe skills, ZOS DB2, PL1 programming and JCL
• Experience in tools like OPC, SDSF, SPUFI, QMF and File Manager.
• Knowledge of any configuration management tool like Github, SNow etc…
• Ability to independently analyse requirements based on a given specification and come up with a sound and balanced algorithmic design.
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Working knowledge in Mainframe Application Development
• Working knowledge in Mainframe Production support.
• Financial domain knowledge.
• Independent contributor, an ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals.
• Ability to manage change and be open to it good time management and an ability to work under stress
• Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Maintain technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications