ETS Engineer IV - Mainframe - CICS & MQ Systems Programmer

Navy Federal Credit Union - Winchester, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Winchester, VA

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About the position

The CICS and MQ Systems Programmer at Navy Federal Credit Union is responsible for providing 24x7x365 administrative support for CICS Transaction Server and WebSphere MQ. This role involves maintaining high availability in production and test environments, troubleshooting issues, and deploying software updates. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in mainframe systems programming, particularly with CICS and MQ, and will be adept at problem-solving and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Full life-cycle project management
• Establish and lead project teams
• Develop project plan/scope/schedule/cost/communications
• Procure and/or manage resources/timelines/deadlines/quality
• Risk, Issue and Change management
• Ensure successful project implementation
• Lead, guide and mentor less experienced staff
• Provide input and make budgetary recommendations regarding staffing and equipment
• Apply engineering principles into the design and enhancement of new and existing systems
• Document new system components, or modifications to existing components
• Ensure the security and integrity of system and product solutions
• Perform engineering tasks and assignments in support of business needs
• Perform engineering technology research, procurement, deployment, and configuration for new and modified systems
• Provide technical leadership in the architecture discipline and development of information technology solutions
• Present clear, organized and concise information to all audiences through a variety of media to enable effective business decisions
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Minimum of 5-6 years of work experience in mainframe CICS and/or WebSphere MQ systems programming
• Demonstrated ability to carefully plan, document, and deploy software updates to multiple environments
• WebSphere MQ queue sharing group configuration and tuning experience
• Recent experience with CICS configuration, tuning, and production support
• Ability to interact with management and actively participate as a member of a team
• Experience with VSAM, DB2 in CICS, Unix System Services or Linux, monitoring tools, CICS and MQ automation tools, web interfaces, and dump diagnosis/debugging tools
• Experience programming in assembler, COBOL, Python, and/or Java
• Experience working with Docker, GitHub, ServiceNow, and Ansible

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a highly available CICS environment
• Expert database and presentation software skills
• Expert research, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Expert verbal and written communication skills
• Expert word processing and spreadsheet software skills

Benefits

• Highly competitive pay
• Generous benefits and perks
• Employee referral program
• Hybrid workplace options