Lead Systems Engineer (z/OS and CICS) - DC

Lead Systems Engineer (z/OS and CICS) - DC

Locations: Dallas, TX | Tampa, FL | Jersey City, NJ | New York, NY | Washington, DC | McLean, VA | Boston, MA

Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder,

• Being a member of the IT Business Unit, Mainframe Software Engineer will be responsible for Develop, maintain, continuously improve and support CICS infrastructure within the ownership of the Transactional Technologies systems.
• Provide experienced infrastructure oversight, ensuring successful delivery and performance of IT services for our clients and the fulfilment of our obligations and Service Levels Targets.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Installation, Customization, and administration of CICS/Transaction Server on IBM Mainframe
• Installation, customization, and administration of Abendaid, TMON, CICS Transaction Gateway, CICSPLEX, CAFC, INTERTEST and WTX on IBM Mainframe.
• Learn and master critical proprietary business systems built on CICS
• Maintain CICS environments in compliance with the security guidelines.
• Assist with testing, implementation, and installation of CICS and associated software.
• Diagnose and resolve CICS environment system abends and abnormal operating problems using system logs, and other available logs and documents.
• Build, define, modify, and understand CICS parameters, CICS RDO definitions, CICS PLT Tables.
• Develop/Maintain/Improve in-house programs and utilities in COBOL, REXX and Assembler
• Have an understanding and experience of IBM SMP/E environment and ability to use SMP/E to install software
• Ensure stability of the above-mentioned products in support of many critical business applications
• Ability to deliver multiple concurrent agile projects/tasks on time and a focus on quality
• Participate in weekend DR tests
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Follow a detailed ITIL-based process

Leadership Proficiencies:

• Be Transformational: Transformative leaders are Inspires Change advancing the organizations strategy by being Future Focused and Compelling Communicators.
• Build Capability: Leaders build capability in themselves by being Committed to Personal Excellence and are Talent Developers for others by providing growth opportunities, feedback, and coaching.
• Create Community: Our leaders are Inclusive Leaders who are Relationship Minded, embracing individual differences, inspiring others to thrive, and building networks for effective collaboration.

Pay and Benefits:

Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location

Retirement benefits

Paid Time Off and other leave of absence

Flexible/Hybrid Work Arrangements (2- 3 Days work from OFFICE)

Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive

Requirements

1. Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

2. Minimum of 6 years of related experience

3. 6+ years in a z/OS Environment with at least 4 years in CICS Administrator/Developer Role

4. Experience in CTG, Abendaid, TMON, CICSPLEX, CAFC or similar tools

5. Proven understanding of basic z/OS system programming internals such as JCLs, JOBs, PROCs, SCHEDULE, RACF, JES2, Virtual Memory

6. Detailed Understanding of CICS Internals, CICS Tables, CICS Resources, CICS

Datasets, CICS-RACF interface

7. Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.