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- This position is responsible for designing enhancements and new business applications and/or information systems solutions through integration of technical and business requirements;
- Serving as technical designer to identify best solution and resulting technical specifications within limits of code environment; linking Business Analyst needs and Architect definition to technical solutions.
- Ensure the integrity, security, scalability, and daily availability and of the databases supporting the Illinois and Texas Blue Chip and IRIS CICS applications through proactive monitoring and management activities.
- Develop detailed technical specifications and designs for waterfall/XP projects / system enhancements.
- Provide application domain knowledge to the ADM team.
- Manage unstable applications / systems by helping to resolve incidents and issues.
- Support infrastructure first build with Solution Architects and Infrastructure Engineers.
- Review, guide, troubleshoot and resolve contentious issues escalated during implementation.
- Evaluate integration of SaaS / COTS packages to current environment.
- Develop operating procedures and user manuals for transition into routine operations.
- Enable building of knowledge databases for technology, solutions and domain areas.
- Work with architecture, application services, infrastructure, release management and other relevant stakeholders to enable a smooth deployment.
- Continuously work on capturing and transferring tacit knowledge to vendors and knowledge management systems.
- Maintain the common I/O access subsystem (database access layer) used to access these files.
- Maintain the in-house developed utilities that assist in managing the databases and their integrity.
- Manage the underlying test platforms and files used by developers maintaining these applications
- Partner with system analysts and solution engineers to translate business and technical requirements into detailed designs that are secure, robust, scalable and extensible.
- Manage VSAM performance thru proper design and buffering, key design.
- Administer and use the CICS VR forward recovery utility (enterprise).
- Write or review responses to audit requests. SDO severity and authorization reports.
- CICS ABEND reporting.
- Production and Test problem determination and debugging
- Capacity planning
- Testing processes for select system software upgrades
- Bachelor Degree and 4 years Information Technology OR Technical Certification and/or College Courses and 6 year Information Technology experience OR 8 years Information Technology experience.
- Knowledge of application configuration
- Knowledge of Big Data Analytics - HAVeN / HADOOP/ Autonomy / Vertica
- Knowledge of Cloud computing / SaaS / IaaS / PaaS technologies
- Knowledge of Integration Technologies - Tibco/Informatica/CAS
- Knowledge of Mobile technologies - Phonegap / iOS / Android / Java / HTML5
- Knowledge of Scripting Languages - BASH / PERL / PYTHON / RUBY
- Service Oriented Architecture - SOAP / REST
- Web Technologies - HTML/CSS/Java/ASP.Net/PHP/Ruby/C#
- Rapid prototyping
- Requirements definition & management
- SDLC Methodology - Agile / Scrum / Iterative Development
- System Performance management
- Conceptual thinking
- Creative thinking
- Problem solving and analytical thinking
- Strong oral/written communication skills
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology related
- Ability to execute
- VSAM File:
- Backup and Restore
- Forward Recovery
- Conversions for filler expansion, key restructuring etc
- Reorganizations and free space tuning
- Naming convention standards
- Special loads and reports or extract
- Logstream management and design
- Master file copybook creation and copybook change management
- Disaster Recovery support
- Data flow and file design and access key design consulting
- Creation and initialization of test databases
- Test copies of production files
- Ad hoc record fixes
- Batch tuning consultation
- CICS memory and CICS topology
- CICS VR administration
- Support / Maintain database related applications:
- Blue Chip Term Up (GTUP) and Terminal Operator File (GTOF) transactions
- Record locking “Exclusive Control” process
- Early morning production file availability transaction (EAIN)
- Key Range Verify program to ensure the integrity of partitioned files.
- SDO authorization reports. Audit requests and reports.