ETS Engineer IV - Mainframe - CICS & MQ Systems Programmer

Overview

A CICS and MQ Systems Programmer at Navy Federal Credit Union provides 24x7x365 administrative, configuration, troubleshooting, and software deployment support for CICS Transaction Server, WebSphere MQ, and supporting software products. The CICS and MQ systems programmer is responsible for maintaining the high availability production CICS and MQ environments as well as a number of test CICS environments. An MQ and CICS experienced professional who enjoys resolving system problems, and providing technical guidance on all things CICS and MQ will be a great addition to our team.

Are you an Engineer or Systems Programmer that enjoys solving problems and tuning performance? Do you find happiness in continuing to enhance and support a highly available CICS or MQ environment? Do you enjoy dump reading and reviewing SMF records? If you do, this may be the next career step for you.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5-6 years of work experience in mainframe CICS and / or WebSphere MQ systems programming.

Additional requirements we are seeking in an Engineer/Systems Programmer:

• A demonstrated ability to carefully plan, document, and deploy software updates to multiple environments.
• WebSphere MQ queue sharing group configuration and tuning experience.
• Recent experience with CICS configuration, tuning, and production support. Experience in a highly available CICS environment is a big plus.
• Ability to interact with management and to actively participate as a member of a team.
• Experience with VSAM (including Record Level Sharing), DB2 in CICS, Unix System Services or Linux, monitoring tools, CICS and MQ automation tools, web interfaces, and dump diagnosis / debugging tools is helpful.
• Experience programming in assembler, COBOL, Python, and / or Java is helpful.
• Experience working with Docker, GitHub, ServiceNow, and Ansible can help you help us serve our members.

Duties of the role: research, evaluate, design, implement, and maintain system and product solutions, applying knowledge of engineering principles. To provide technical direction and engineering support for projects and infrastructure. Develop and maintain expert functional knowledge of evolving IT engineering industry technologies/competition, concepts and trends. Mainframe Systems Programming: Specializes in mainframe operating systems programming, maintenance, and updates, and providing technical support to aid and enhance the efficiency of operating systems and data center operations.

This position is eligible for the TalentQuest employee referral program. If an employee referred you for this job, please apply using the system-generated link that was sent to you.

Responsibilities

• Full life-cycle project management
  • Establish and lead project teams
  • Develop project plan/scope/schedule/cost/communications
  • Procure and/or manage resources/timelines/deadlines/quality
  • Risk, Issue and Change management
  • Ensure successful project implementation
  • Scope of responsibility
• Lead, guide and mentor less experienced staff
• Provide input and make budgetary recommendations regarding staffing and equipment
• Apply engineering principles into the design and enhancement of new and existing systems
• Document new system components, or modifications to existing components
• Ensure the security and integrity of system and product solutions including compliance with Navy Federal, industry engineering and Information Security principles and practices
• Perform engineering tasks and assignments in support of business needs
• Perform engineering technology research, procurement, deployment, and configuration for new and modified systems
• Provide technical leadership in the architecture discipline and development of information technology solutions
• Present clear, organized and concise information to all audiences through a variety of media to enable effective business decisions
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Significant experience in leading, guiding and coaching professional staff
• Advanced knowledge of engineering discipline
• Advanced organizational, planning and time management skills
• Advanced skill exercising initiative and using good judgment to make sound decisions
• Expert database and presentation software skills
• Expert research, analytical, and problem solving skills
• Expert verbal and written communication skills
• Expert word processing and spreadsheet software skills
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM

Location: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180 | 5510 Heritage Oaks Drive Pensacola, FL 32526 | 141 Security Drive Winchester, VA 22602 | 9999 Willow Creek Road San Diego, CA 92131

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