Mainframe Analyst

Mbi Llc; Trenton (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MBI LLC is seeking a contractor with extensive COBOL/CICS/DB2 experience to extract business logic from existing programs and document it. The role involves reviewing batch processes, gaining understanding of case management systems, and delivering new or modified programs with thorough unit and user testing.

Required hands-on coding and testing skills, IDMS/DC to CICS/DB2 conversions, and strong communication to collaborate with IT and business units.

Qualifications

• HANDS‑ON COBOL/CICS/DB2 coding, testing and debugging.
• Experience with IBM OS/JCL (MVS) and IBM/DB2.
• CICS experience.
• DB2 Stored Procedures coding.
• APPC/LU 6.2 or MQ Programming in Cobol-CICS.

Responsibilities

• Attain a complete understanding of the Case Management system and additional Judiciary applications.
• Develop and/or receive program specification requirements.
• Contractor might be required to deliver new or modified programs.
• Successfully unit test their work and system testing of programs with users.

Skills

COBOL/CICS/DB2 coding

IBM OS/JCL (MVS)

CICS

IDMS/DC to CICS Conversion

IDMS to DB2 Conversion

IBM/DB2

Usability Testing

APPC/MQ Cobol-CICS

Communication skills

Education

4-year college degree or equivalent technical study

Job description

- Contractor's primary responsibility will be to look at existing Programs written in Cobol/CICS/DB2/MQ, extract the business logic from these programs and document them.

- Contractor will also be going through the batch processing of our existing systems and extract the program logic, Procs and JCLs and document them.

- Contractor will be required to collaborate and provide technical expertise to the Information Technology Office and the Business unit to develop a technical solution to implement business/system requirements for different Case Management Systems.

- All contractor personnel will be under the direct supervision of a Project Manager for the AOC's Information Technology Office (IT O) or other designated IT O representative.

- Contractor might be required to deliver new or modified programs, code Stored Procedures and successfully unit test their work, develop supportive documentation, and participate with the users in the system testing of their programs.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Current hands‑on experience in coding, testing and debugging programs written in COBOL/CICS/DB2; experience with IBM OS/JCL (MVS) and IBM/DB2.
• Experience with CICS.
• Experience in conversions for IDMS/DC to CICS, IDMS to DB2 desired.
• Experience in Usability Testing (participate with the users in the system testing of programs)
• Experience in APPC/LU 6.2 or MQ Programming in Cobol-CICS.
• Experience in coding complex DB2 Stored Procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Attain a complete understanding of the Case Management system and additional Judiciary applications in order to develop from the business/system requirements.
• Develop and/or receive program specification requirements.
• Contractor might be required to deliver new or modified programs.
• Successfully unit test their work and system testing of programs with users.

Skill Matrix:

• Hands‑on experience – COBOL/CICS/DB2 coding, testing & debugging: 8 years
• IBM OS/JCL (MVS): 8 years
• CICS: 8 years
• IDMS/DC to CICS Conversion: 8 years
• IDMS to DB2 Conversion: 8 years
• IBM/DB2: 8 years
• Usability Testing: 8 years
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to collaborate internally & externally: 8 years
• 4‑year college degree or equivalent technical study: 4 years
• Overall technical and IT experience: 8 years