At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a global team to enhance and maintain mainframe systems for a leading bank.
- Company: Dynamic banking institution focused on innovation and resilience.
- Benefits: Hybrid work model, competitive pay, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Exciting chance to upskill junior programmers and develop best practices.
- Why this job: Make a significant impact on system performance and efficiency in a collaborative environment.
- Qualifications: 10+ years in mainframe CICS software with strong problem-solving skills.
The predicted salary is between 49500 - 60500 £ per year.
Role: CICS System Programmer (Mainframe)
Location: UK/Denmark
Contract Role
Work Mode: Hybrid Mode
Experience: 10+ Years
As a CICS System Programmer, the candidate will be part of a Global team responsible for building, configuring, and maintaining the Bank’s mainframe systems availability, efficiency, and resilience, underpinned by the architectural principle of cloned infrastructure, system configurations, applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform mainframe CICS software upgrades coupled with administration and tuning to support mainframe environments. Current version is CICS 5.6.
- Provide high degree of technical support (24*7) to reduce the likelihood of significant service outage or disaster.
- Analyse new versions of CICS for functionality improving systems performance and reduce cost.
- Track and analyse performance and resource utilization of CICS systems.
- Recommend changes, upgrades, and enhancements based on the technical analysis.
- Perform problem diagnostics and resolutions.
- Participate in incident and problem management activities related to applications and CICS.
- Encourage and ensure collaboration across functional users and vendors to provide guidance and manage different tasks with a “can-do” attitude.
- Execute project and internal initiative responsibilities as assigned or delegated.
- Develop and maintain operational documentation, best practices, and run books for the operational platform.
- Upskill junior systems programmers.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience of installing and/or customizing mainframe CICS software in Large Data sharing environments.
- 5+ years of experience with CICSplex and CICS Explorer to manage CICS systems.
- Solid understanding of resource definitions and its dependencies.
- CF structures and its practical use in a business environment.
- Experience with Omegamon and Fault Analyzer along with basic dump analysis skills on IPCS.
- Experience in cloning and sunsetting CICS regions.
- Basic understanding of CICS security with RACF.
- Exposure to working with SMF 110 records and its practical application in terms of problem determination.
- Strong problem determination skills in both system and application areas.
- Proficient in working with high availability environment along with alignment to process (ITIL).
- Experience working with and maintaining other vendor tools for CICS as well as exposure to common z/OS tools like SDSF RMF etc.
- Experience with automating CICS events via CICSplex RTA and/or system automation tools on z/OS.
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