Mainframe Programmer Full Time

Smart IT Frame LLC; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart IT Frame LLC in Plano, TX is seeking a Senior Mainframe Production Support SME to keep critical systems running and aligned with business goals. You will be the hands-on expert for production issues, batch processing, and application performance.

Responsibilities include analyzing production incidents, restoring batch abends, creating reports, and guiding release and deployment activities. A strong COBOL, JCL, and Easytrieve background with familiarity with VSAM/DB2/IMS is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of developing and supporting Mainframe-based applications.
• 10+ years with JCL batch processing.
• 10+ years analyzing COBOL and Easytrieve.
• Experience with VSAM, DB2, IMS and DBDC.
• 5+ years using CA7, NDMFTP and File Manager.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on SME support for Mainframe production issues.
• Address batch issues, analyze root cause and implement fixes.
• Support release, deployment, and production ticket triage.
• Produce adhoc data reports for Line of Business.
• Work after-hours on-call as needed.

Skills

Mainframe IMSDB

Mainframe DB2

Mainframe Enterprise Cobol

Mainframe Platform

ServiceNow ITSM

Critical Incident Response

Major Incident Management

Tools

CA7

NDMFTP

File Manager

Job description

Job Title: Mainframe Production Support SME

Job Description

This job is responsible for supporting critical Mainframe applications to accomplish business goals

• Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that applications are functioning as designed address batch or customer issues and find improvement opportunities
• Analyze production issues restore batch abends and create adhoc data reports as requested by Line of Business
• Job expectations include a strong knowledge of Mainframe batch applications programming languages such as COBOL JCL Easy trieve and commonly used Mainframe tools
• Serve as hands on Subject Matter Expert and support issues resolution Priority 1, 2, 3
• Assess and suggest process improvements enhancements and performance improvements
• Maintain documentation of the issues and knowledge of business processes
• Application Release and Deployment Support
• Production TicketIssue Triage support
• Identify root cause in the code perform breakfix activities in the code andor DB
• Create adhoc data reports as needed by Line of Business
• Provide support after office hours weekends and oncall support when business needs

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of developing supporting Mainframe based applications
• 10 Years of developing batch using Job Control Language JCL
• 10 Years of analyzing developing COBOL Easytrieve programs
• 10 Years of experience working with Flat files VSAM DB2 and IMS DBDC
• 5 Years of experience with tools such as CA7 NDMFTP File Manager

Desired Qualifications

• Good communication skills both written and oral are required as the individual must interface with application developers support teams and management
• Experience with Consumer banking or Deposits applications

Skills

• Mandatory Skills: Mainframe - IMSDB, Mainframe DB2, Mainframe Enterprise Cobol, Mainframe Platform, ServiceNow ITSM
• Good to Have Skills: Critical Incident Response, Major incident management