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Job Summary:
TEKFORTUNE INC is seeking a highly experienced Mainframe Application developer to join their team. The role involves leading and collaborating with Mainframe Applications Support for development, maintenance, and troubleshooting, while ensuring high-performance applications and driving operational excellence in the Automotive Core Domains.
Responsibilities:
• Provides hands on experience and manages Mainframe Applications Maintenance Service – SNOW incidents , on a timely basis with a high quality.
• Responsible to work on and implement 35-40% of incidents assigned to Core Business area domain.
• Effective AMS execution with 0 SLA breach max 5% in respective group/assignment.
• Aging: No single incident >30 days.
• No breach for P1 and P2 incidents.
• Availability for P1 critical incidents to be worked on immediately.
• P3 & P4 incidents completed in 2 to 5 days, improve Resolution turnaround time at 5%.
• Availability for On Call Support 7:30 AM-7:30 PM, PST for your assigned Business area domain.
• Initiate and Implement Proactive Problem Management solutions.
• ITCAM Alert Initiative actively participate & contribute by identifying specific/problematic issues, research and provide PPMs & New solutions. Responsible to develop, test, and deploy new solutions.
• Initiate and provide Knowledge Repository & Documentation, and Enhancements (Documentation AMS minimum 4 annually (1 per quarter).
• No Production deployment failures from your respective domain area.
• Avoid delays/ wait time for customer responses on business/operational issues.
• Close coordination and communication with offshore AMS Managers and leads across the group, ensuring that delivery is high quality and on/before schedule.
• Provide effective and timely resolution for all requests/queries from the team on daily basis.
• Get timely and formal customer sign off/approvals for all deliverables/assignments.
• Manage and address critical P1, P2 issues and addresses them immediately related to Mainframe AMS incidents.
• Lead, develop and maintain Mainframe applications support (Incident reporting, Change requests, Prod IDs).
• Knowledge of processing large sets of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data supporting systems application architecture.
• Knowledgeable of application methodology development and life cycle and Software Engineering principles.
• Able to assess business rules, collaborate with stakeholders and perform source to target data mapping, design and review.
• Experience in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS).
• Excellent knowledge in creating databases, tables, stored procedures, DDL/DML Triggers, Views, User defined data types, functions Cursors and Indexes using T-SQL.
• Experience in data conversion and data migration using SSIS and DTS services across different databases like Oracle, and flat files.
• Provide production support for mainframe applications and other technological applications troubleshooting system issues, analyzing logs, and ensuring minimal downtime using monitoring tools.
• Develop and optimize SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, DB2, UDB), integrating them with Java applications for efficient data retrieval and storage.
• Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and optimize existing application workflows.
• Facilitate the transition from requirements to execution by spearheading project plan creation and maintaining comprehensive documentation throughout the implementation phase.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including architects and developers, to design, deploy, and maintain enterprise-level web applications and services.
• Support Annual Disaster Recovery coordination with AMS offshore team validation of applications.
• Presales & Analysis Create and bring Value Add to improving business processes, efficiency and automated business solutions. Provide excellence through scope documentation, and detailed estimation reviews to ensure project viability.
• Evaluate and provide estimate work packages for AMS enhancements, tasks, projects by working with Project Mgrs offshore.
• Lead by example, blending technical expertise and providing transparent communication to drive digital transformation projects.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years in Applications Design, Analysis, Development Testing and Implementation on various batch and online, stored procedures for Mainframe applications development, maintenance, and troubleshooting and system performance tuning.
• Strong leadership skills as a technical practitioner and Business Partner in making significant contributions to OEM Automotive Industry.
• Proven track record of delivering on aggressive timelines, exceeding performance expectations, and driving operational excellence in complex enterprise environments for Applications development.
• Hands on experience and manages Mainframe Applications Maintenance Service – SNOW incidents, on a timely basis with a high quality.
• Responsible to work on and implement 35-40% of incidents assigned to Core Business area domain.
• Effective AMS execution with 0 SLA breach max 5% in respective group/assignment.
• Aging: No single incident >30 days.
• No breach for P1 and P2 incidents.
• Availability for P1 critical incidents to be worked on immediately.
• P3 & P4 incidents completed in 2 to 5 days, improve Resolution turnaround time at 5%.
• Availability for On Call Support 7:30 AM-7:30 PM, PST for your assigned Business area domain.
• Initiate and Implement Proactive Problem Management solutions.
• ITCAM Alert Initiative actively participate & contribute by identifying specific/problematic issues, research and provide PPMs & New solutions. Responsible to develop, test, and deploy new solutions.
• Initiate and provide Knowledge Repository & Documentation, and Enhancements (Documentation AMS minimum 4 annually (1 per quarter).
• No Production deployment failures from your respective domain area.
• Avoid delays/ wait time for customer responses on business/operational issues.
• Close coordination and communication with offshore AMS Managers and leads across the group, ensuring that delivery is high quality and on/before schedule.
• Provide effective and timely resolution for all requests/queries from the team on daily basis.
• Get timely and formal customer sign off/approvals for all deliverables/assignments.
• Manage and address critical P1, P2 issues and addresses them immediately related to Mainframe AMS incidents.
• Lead, develop and maintain Mainframe applications support (Incident reporting, Change requests, Prod IDs).
• Knowledge of processing large sets of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data supporting systems application architecture.
• Knowledgeable of application methodology development and life cycle and Software Engineering principles.
• Able to assess business rules, collaborate with stakeholders and perform source to target data mapping, design and review.
• Experience in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS).
• Excellent knowledge in creating databases, tables, stored procedures, DDL/DML Triggers, Views, User defined data types, functions Cursors and Indexes using T-SQL.
• Experience in data conversion and data migration using SSIS and DTS services across different databases like Oracle, and flat files.
• Provide production support for mainframe applications and other technological applications troubleshooting system issues, analyzing logs, and ensuring minimal downtime using monitoring tools.
• Develop and optimize SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, DB2, UDB), integrating them with Java applications for efficient data retrieval and storage.
• Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and optimize existing application workflows.
• Facilitate the transition from requirements to execution by spearheading project plan creation and maintaining comprehensive documentation throughout the implementation phase.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including architects and developers, to design, deploy, and maintain enterprise-level web applications and services.
• Support Annual Disaster Recovery coordination with AMS offshore team validation of applications.
• Presales & Analysis Create and bring Value Add to improving business processes, efficiency and automated business solutions. Provide excellence through scope documentation, and detailed estimation reviews to ensure project viability.
• Evaluate and provide estimate work packages for AMS enhancements, tasks, projects by working with Project Mgrs offshore.
• Lead by example, blending technical expertise and providing transparent communication to drive digital transformation projects.
• Automotive Domain Expertise: Work closely with data systems and gain deep expertise in the automotive industry. Contribute to the development and optimization of systems supporting OEM systems and associated technologies.
• Mainframe Development: Lead and hands on experience with the development and maintenance of mainframe-based applications.
• Design and Develop – Cobol programs – Batch & Online (CICS), RPC’s Stored Procedures.
• Unit and System testing - of newly developed/changed components.
• Create reports - against Z/OS DB2, IBM UDB and MS SQL Server databases based on the user requirements.
• Monitoring and Reporting: Design application to generate daily monitoring reports, tracking file ingestion status and scheduling data lake runs.
• SQL & Data Querying: Experience in SQL queries for data analysis and reporting, using Java for integration and automation in processing datasets and generating insights.
• Integration Management: mainframe applications interaction with 3rd party systems using API Integration (MuleSoft, other).
• Code Integration & Version Control: Utilize Git for version control, ensuring effective branching, merging, and code reviews. Actively contributed to the maintenance of Java applications through integration and unit testing.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Business users and stakeholders along with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical /business solutions using Java, ensuring alignment with project objectives and business goals.
• Support & Optimization: Provide 24x7 ongoing production support for mainframe applications, optimizing system performance and ensuring seamless operation of dealer-facing tools and internal applications.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Lead efforts in unit testing, integration testing, and code review processes. Ensured that mainframe applications and system features are fully functional, scalable, and performant.
• Global Team Orchestration: Manage close daily coordination with offshore teams and managers to prioritize tasks, resolve technical queries rapidly, and ensure high-quality delivery across different time zones.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Act as the primary communication hub for all Business stakeholders, project parties, AMS teams (Apps/Infra offshore/onshore) ensuring seamless alignment and transparency regarding business changes and project status.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (with honors preferred).
• Experience: 10+ years
• Certifications: DB2 Database developer by IBM, Big Data – A Plus
Preferred:
• Exposure to cloud-based systems
• Familiarity with modern observability (Dynatrace/New Relic extensions) or GitOps workflows.
• Familiarity with Data Privacy and Data Governance a PLUS!
Company:
Tekfortune Inc. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Piscataway, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.