Software Development Senior Specialist

NTT DATA - Addison, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Addison, TX

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Software Development Senior Specialist role at NTT DATA involves engineering and implementing various aspects of a complex IBM Mainframe environment. This position is crucial for maintaining and configuring CICS environments, ensuring system availability, and providing technical support to application developers. The role requires participation in system upgrades, troubleshooting, and performance analysis, making it essential for the smooth operation of mainframe systems.

Responsibilities

• Plays a key role as an individual contributor in engineering and implementing various aspects of a complex IBM Mainframe environment.
• Maintains and configures CICS environments and CICS web services.
• Ensures availability of CICS regions and troubleshooting issues.
• Maintains, supports and troubleshoots the z/OS operating system and various ISV products from vendors; IBM, Broadcom and others.
• Participates in Mainframe Software / Hardware / Operating System Upgrades.
• Plan upgrades and develop schedules.
• Coordinate and facilitate software installation and validation with application teams and delivery partners.
• Review new features and provide necessary documentation and procedures to Application development teams.
• Work with vendors to resolve any issues.
• Administration of Mainframe SCM application (Broadcom Endevor).
• Maintaining TCPIP Pagent policy.
• Co-ordinates and ensures successful day-to-day deliverables from Delivery partners.
• Providing technical assistance to application developers and support teams.
• Participates in mainframe disaster recovery exercises.
• Assist security team with z/OS mainframe security (Top Secret) and user profile issues.
• Perform mainframe system performance analysis, reporting and apply performance tuning as necessary.
• On-call rotation.
• Incident and Problem management.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Mainframe System Programmer (CICS or z/OS or other) or Technical Specialist.
• Any combination of z/OS, CICS, TCPIP, Supersession, Omegamon, SMF, RMF, Top Secret, Storage systems and other ISV products.
• TSO/ISPF, SDSF and JCL experience.
• Assembler, COBOL, REXX and SAS programming.