Product development experience with a proven track record of delivering high quality commercial enterprise products.
z/OS Internals experience architecting complex operating system level solutions.
In depth experience in troubleshooting complex problems at application and systems levels.
Roles & Responsibilities
Work directly with clients in North America and EMEA on complex product issues/escalations.
Successfully developed and delivered products, product lines, and solutions ensuring functional accuracy and quality standards.
Design, code, and fix defects of increasingly complex, multi-tier software solutions.
Produces more and better design options, reflecting a wider breadth of technical knowledge and insight.
Conduct code and design reviews.
High-impact decision making; focusing on areas that deliver the largest value.
Evaluate new technologies/innovations and processes that could impact products/solutions including 3rd party releases.
Mentor/provide technical guidance to the development team.
Leverage the skill sets of the entire team, take input and advice, combine pieces of information to produce a better answer.
Highly developed mainframe technology skills
Coding experience in a multitasking, reentrant and/or sysplex environment
Self-starter able to work independently to provide quality solutions with little oversight.
Experienced creating functional designs/specifications from business requirements.
Operating system centric role
Excellent knowledge of assembler, z/OS structure and logic including knowledge of z/OS operating system internals
Experience in developing working code utilizing low-level operating system functions to accomplish a desired task.
Understanding of zLinux and Unix System Services.
Skills & Experience
Minimum 12+ years of experience with z/OS Processing Environment.
Extensive development experience using 64-bit Assembler and 31-bit Assembler programming languages.
Experience with Java virtual machines (JVM) that run on z/OS including their operating and environmental characteristics would be plus.
Experience with the configuration of JVMs in various application scenarios including z/OS Connect EE, WebSphere Liberty, and CICS Transaction Gateway nice to have.
Experience with TCP/IP and related networking protocols.