Mainframe Application Developer (Hybrid) presso MKS2 Technologies
MKS2 Technologies · Richmond, Stati Uniti d'America · Hybrid
- Professional
- Ufficio in Richmond
MKS2 Technologies, LLC, an award-winning high growth small business, creates innovative and customer-centric technology solutions in the areas of Cyber Security, Instructional Design and Training, Software Engineering and IT Support Services to improve the security and well-being of our clients. Our commitment to excellence and our “Mission First” orientation has resulted in steady growth and an expanding client base across government agencies. We have employees nationwide and for the past three consecutive years were named one of the fastest growing Veteran-owned companies in the nation. Please take a moment to browse through our website and learn more about what it means to serve with MKS2.
Mainframe Applications Developer
Option for remote - Ideally Hybrid schedule commuting into either Richmond or Lynchburg Offices
Contract Type: 6-month Contract to Hire
Approximate Conversion Salary: $95k-$110k
Description:
In your role as an Application Developer – Mainframe you will support Genworth’s top strategic priorities. The person selected will initially work on an Agile team, executing projects for the CLOAS application. The individual needs to be proficient in providing technical solutions for large and complex mainframe applications. The role will involve extensive collaboration with other developers, Business Analysts and QA members on the team as well as with Business Partners, IT Architect and other IT teams. This position reports to the Long-Term Care Policy Administration Projects IT Leader.
CLOAS is a mainframe-based application and is the core Genworth system for Long Term Care Policy Administration. The CLOAS application sits at the center of all policy processing for the business and contains the data and business logic for all customer service operations. The system integrates with many peripheral systems utilizing various technologies including Web Services and MQ. The CLOAS team uses Agile development methodologies and is actively implementing modern tools for development and testing. It is amongst the most active Genworth systems, with multiple ongoing enhancements and upgrades to support evolving business needs.
Your Responsibilities:
• Work in an Agile team alongside other developers, Quality Assurance associates and business systems analyst to create technical solutions for business requirements
• Collaborate with the team to plan the Sprint backlog, story pointing, and break down tasks into smaller, manageable pieces
• Design, Code, Document and Test the solution ensuring that it meets acceptance criteria, does not cause unintended impact and fits within the overall technical architecture. Support your changes through the testing process, assist with test planning, defect resolution and technical system activities. Implement the solution following the established change control process
• Perform unit testing, system testing, and integration testing to ensure code quality and compliance with requirements
• Support deployment activities and post product validations
• Analyze incidents and issues assigned to the team, determine the impact of the issue and come up with solution proposals to formulate the right approach to solve the problem.
• When needed, support the Long Term Care policy administration system, by monitoring the system, resolving failures, job abends, policy related incidents, system defects, and by maintaining the interactions of the application with peripheral systems.
• Perform administrative duties in conjunction with the departmental requirements (participate in meetings, agile ceremonies (Stand Ups, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives etc.), respond to correspondence in a timely manner, provide status updates, review/update/submit tickets, participate in change management activities).
• Work and collaborate with the team to ensure work is completed in a timely manner considering their severity, impact and urgency. Assist team members in resolving technical problems.
Your Qualifications:
• 4-year college degree and/or relevant equivalent experience with strong mainframe (COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS) programming skills and production support experience preferably in insurance/finance domain.
• Excellent analytical skills and a detail-oriented mindset, with ability to understand complex business logic, analyze the system and data, to identify changes needed, and understand impact of changes on the various products and system functionalities.
• Basic experience with SQL and data analysis.
• Experience working in a cross-functional team environment on a complex mainframe system and having good problem-solving skills and a results-oriented outlook.
• Good communication skills ability to work with various stakeholders, managing concurrent deadlines and multiple priorities.
• A continuous improvement mindset, and willingness to adapt to new technologies and ways of working
Additional Qualifications:
• Knowledge of Assembler programming in the IBM Mainframe environment
• Working knowledge of CLOAS Policy Administration System
• Practical knowledge of LTC insurance products and premiums
• Experience in a managed services environment, working with an onshore-offshore model, managing SLA’s and work queues.
• Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum or Kanban)
• IMS database experience in an MVS and CICS environment
• Advanced SQL programming experience
• Experience with modern mainframe development and testing tools
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: MKS2 Technologies is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
