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Senior Application Programmer Mainframe Systems
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What they do
An Application Developer or Engineer designs or improves applications software. Oversees the entire applications development process. Analyzes customer or user needs, designs programs, writes code or instructs computer programmers, tests design, and documents programs. May assist with upgrades or maintenance.
$127,673 / year median in California
-9% projected decline
Job Description
Senior Application Programmer Mainframe Systems Downey, CA, US
• Posted 1 day ago
• Updated 1 day ago Contract W2 On-site USD $70-80/hr Fitment Dice Job Match Score™ 🔢 Crunching numbers... Job Details Skills Testing Prototyping Systems Architecture Debugging Software Architecture Media Interfaces Computer Hardware Writing Documentation Information Security Information Assurance Software Development Development Testing Software Design Database Administration Data Structure Data Modeling Data Warehouse Systems Engineering Scalability Optimization Data Processing Systems Design
NATURAL SQL
Assembly Language
SAS JCL MVS TSO ISPF IBM
InfoSphere IBM Spufi
VSAM CLIST FTP DYL CA
Gen Endevor OM IBM WebSphere Database
IBM DB2 ADABAS FOCUS
z/OS EntireX HTML Cloverleaf
IBM IMS COBOL CICS
Mainframe SANS Computer Science
SAP BASIS
Technical Direction Testing Prototyping Systems Architecture Debugging Software Architecture Media Interfaces Computer Hardware Writing Documentation Information Security Information Assurance Software Development Development Testing Software Design Database Administration Data Structure Data Modeling Data Warehouse Systems Engineering Scalability Optimization Data Processing Systems Design
NATURAL SQL
Assembly Language
SAS JCL MVS TSO ISPF IBM
InfoSphere IBM Spufi
VSAM CLIST FTP DYL CA
Gen Endevor OM IBM WebSphere Database
IBM DB2 ADABAS FOCUS
z/OS EntireX HTML Cloverleaf
IBM IMS COBOL CICS
Mainframe SANS Computer Science
SAP BASIS
Technical Direction Summary Position Description A Senior Application Programmer for Mainframe Systems is responsible for leading and/or working on the most complex IT applications design, documentation, development, modification, testing, installation, implementation, and support of new or existing applications software. The Senior Application Programmer for Mainframe Systems is responsible for analyzing and refining systems requirements; translating systems requirements into applications prototypes; planning and designing systems architecture; writing, debugging and maintaining code; determining and designing applications architecture; determining output media/formats; designing user interfaces; working with customers to test applications; assuring software and systems quality and functionality; integrating hardware and software components; writing and maintaining program documentation; evaluating new applications software technologies; and/or ensuring the rigorous application of information security/information assurance policies, principles and practices to the delivery of application software services. Skills Required The Senior Application Programmer for Mainframe Systems will possess knowledge and experience in applications software development principles and methods sufficient to participate in the design, development, testing and implementation of new or modified applications software; organization s operational environment; software design principles, methods and approaches; principles, methods and procedures for designing, developing, optimizing and integrating new and/or reusable systems components; pertinent government regulations; infrastructure requirements, database management principles and methodologies, including data structures, data modeling, data warehousing and transaction processing; functionality and operability of the current operating environment; systems engineering concepts and factors such as structured design, supportability, reliability, scalability and maintainability; optimization concepts and methods; establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of the work; and speak and write effectively and prepare effective reports. Additional Skills Required Experience Required This classification must have a minimum of seven (7) years of experience in electronic data processing systems design and programming with one or more of the software set forth below.
LANGUAGES
COBOL, Natural/ SuperNatural, IMS/DB/DC, DB2/SQL, Assembler, SAS, CICS;
MF FOCUS
;
TOOLS/UTILITIES
MVS
JCL, MVS TSO/ISPF, IBM OPTIM, FILE
Manager, SPUFI, ICEMAN/ICETOOLS, SORT, VSAM, CLIST, FTP, DYL260/280, CA Gen (CoolGen), CA Endevor, CA Spool, CA OM Web Viewer, IBM Websphere, Debugger, N2O;
DATABASES
DB2, IMS, ADABAS, FOCUS;
OS:
z/OS;
OTHER:
EntireX, ASP, HTML, Cloverleaf. Additional Experience Required Minimum of seven (7) years of experience with
IMS/DB2/COBOL/CICS
programming in a mainframe environment. Education Required This classification requires the possession of a bachelor s degree in an IT-related or Computer Science field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis. Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools ("AI") that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
Dice Id:
10203745
Position Id:
OOJ - 5106-4110-1788552620
Posted 1 day ago