About the role
Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency)
Must-Have
Strong
hands-on experience in COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and TSO/ISPF.
Experience in Mainframe application development, maintenance, enhancement,
impact analysis, debugging, and troubleshooting.
Experience in production support, incident management, defect resolution,
and root cause analysis.
Strong understanding of batch processing, batch monitoring, failure
analysis, job restart, and recovery procedures.
Experience working with DB2 databases, SQL queries, and
database-related support activities.
Knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC), testing methodologies,
change management, and deployment processes.
Experience with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow or similar incident
management platforms.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Good verbal and written communication skills wit h the ability to work
independently and within distributed teams.
Good-to-Have
Knowledge of Easytrieve, REXX, and
Mainframe utilities.
Experience with enterprise scheduling tools such as Control-M or
equivalent.
Exposure to utility, billing, customer information systems (CIS), finance,
insurance, banking, or other transaction processing applications.
Experience supporting critical batch cycles and large-scale production
environments.
Knowledge of Mainframe modernization initiatives and integration with
distributed systems.
Exposure to DevOps, automation, and monitoring solutions in Mainframe
environments.