This is a 12 month contract with vanguard. Remote to start. Onsite after Covid. Visa: All but no H1B.

Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides expert level system analysis, design, development, implementation, and testing of data-centric applications in a Mainframe environment. Integrates third party data as needed.

• Thoroughly understands and applies agile software development methodologies - Kanban in particular.

• Translates technical specifications, and/or logical and physical design into code for new or enhancement projects (for internal or external clients).

• Develops code that reuses subroutines or objects, is well structured, includes sufficient comments, and is easy to maintain.

• Writes programs, ad hoc queries, and reports.

• Participates in design, code, and test inspections throughout life cycle to identify issues and ensure methodology compliance.

• Writes the system/technical portion of assigned deliverables. Assists technical team members with the system/technical portion of their deliverables, e.g., systems testers, test plans. On small teams, the developer may write these items.

• Performs unit testing and writes appropriate unit test plans to ensure requirements are satisfied. Assists in integration, systems, acceptance, and other related testing as needed

Core Responsibilities/ Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrated track record of strong analysis, design, and implementation capabilities

• Demonstrated proficiency developing parallel applications using:

Required Skills include:

• Strong experience in Mainframe Development

• DB2 for Z/OS

• SQL

• COBOL

• JCL\PROCs

Major plus if they have these skills:

• Endevor

• Control-M

• BMC utilities

• MQ

• Attunity for DB2 & DynamoDB

• AWS experience - AWS Certified Developer, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, Kinesis

Other Competencies:

• 3+ years Mainframe developer experience

• Familiarity with Agile methodology

• Strong, demonstrated analysis and problem-solving skills

• Strong planning and organizational skills

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Strong client/server development skills