Mainframe Developer

Our client seeks a Mainframe Developer to design, build, and support applications on a Z/OS platform. The team leverages financial domain expertise across demographic and financial feed processing, recordkeeping, and transaction processing. You will translate business requirements into software solutions using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, and VSAM, while contributing to standards, policies, and development strategies., * Perform as a full stack engineer, including requirements gathering, development, and testing.

• Participate in architecture design teams and help define and implement application level architecture.
• Develop applications on sophisticated projects, components, and subsystems.
• Recommend development testing tools and methodologies and review and validate test plans.
• Be responsible for QA readiness.
• Plan and conduct system testing.
• Develop comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems.
• Establish project plans for complex projects across multiple platforms.
• Plan and coordinate project schedules and assignments.
• Act as a primary liaison for business units to resolve project and technology issues.
• Provide technology solutions to daily issues and deliver technical evaluation estimates on initiatives.
• Advise senior management on technical strategy and mentor junior team members.
• Perform independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects.
• Identify opportunities to innovate and automate existing processes.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance., * Five years of mainframe application development, test automation, and support using COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, MQ-Series, Java, Web Services, and SQL.

• Experience developing and deploying Batch and CICS applications.
• Experience with File-Aid for file format and comparison, version management with Endevor, debugging and unit testing using Intertest and Abend-AID, and scheduling with Control-M.
• Experience analyzing and designing data flows for mainframe applications.
• Experience with performance tuning in TSO and MVS environments using Endevor, Git, ClearCase, Control-M, Abend-AID, Intertest, File-Aid, Easytrieve, and tools such as Strobe, iStrobe, Platinum Detector, and TMON to reduce I/Os, CPU time, MSUs, and MIPs.
• Experience with open source technologies such as Python., Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field, and five years of experience in the role or in mainframe brokerage and stock plan services systems application development.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.