P2- Mainframe Developer

Advantages
 You will have an opportunity to work with a leading employer in the local market.
 Good chance of extension

Responsibilities
 Responsible for detailed technical design, development, and maintenance of
applications on mainframe platforms Design and code program; create test transactions
and run tests.
 Conduct analysis of needs and goals for the development and implementation of
applications systems.
 Review, analyze and modify programming systems including encoding, testing,
debugging and installation.
 Establish disaster recovery plan.
 Maintains online and batch applications. A vacancy exists for a senior developer to join
the team in the delivery and development of this project and to eventually contribute to
future enhancement, support, and maintenance post-delivery.
 Prime responsibility will be to develop detailed design specifications, create and review
code and assess impact on other applications.
 Role will work closely with other team members to ensure consistency in coding
standards and approaches and to optimize any synergy and re-use opportunities.
 Responsible for leading technical aspects of project from inception through to
deployment. Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions.
 Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life
Cycle (SDLC) methodology.
 Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles.
 Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions.
 Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues.
 Active participation in issue resolution.
 Provide detailed development estimates to Project Manager for development effort as
well as weekly status reporting and budget forecasting.
 Configuration management for the sub projects within the release.
 Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment, and support of builds as code is
promoted from development, system, acceptance, and production environments.
 May lead code reviews.

 Work closely with System Test Environment Management Team (STEMT) to ensure that
environments are fully functional and that builds are properly deployed. Participate in
development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and
integration testing of code). Provide technical support to business and testing team
during testing phases.
 Track defects, defect triage and resolution.
 Data set up and environment shake down.
 Coaching / mentoring of junior developers.
 Knowledge transfer within group.
 Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge
transfer has occurred to full time staff upon completion of contract term.

Qualifications
 Mainframe Developer exp – 10 years
 Experience in DB2 – 10 years
 IMS – 8 years
 COBOL – 10 years
 Endevour – 8 years
 JCL – 10 years
 CA7 – 5 years
 SAS – 5 years
 AGILE project experience

NICE TO HAVE
 Fintrac reporting
 Banking experience

Summary
Do you have this experience? If you answer YES, then please apply IMMEDIATELY to so we can then
discuss your experience and interest in this opportunity!
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