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 hybrid position requires a minimum of three days onsite and focuses on maintaining and configuring CICS environments, ensuring system availability, and troubleshooting issues. The specialist will also participate in software and hardware upgrades, coordinate with application teams, and provide technical assistance to developers and support teams.

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.
• Plans upgrades and develops schedules.
• Coordinates and facilitates software installation and validation with application teams and delivery partners.
• Reviews new features and provides necessary documentation and procedures to Application development teams.
• Works with vendors to resolve any issues.
• Administration of Mainframe SCM application (Broadcom Endevor).
• Maintains TCPIP Pagent policy.
• Coordinates and ensures successful day-to-day deliverables from Delivery partners.
• Provides technical assistance to application developers and support teams.
• Participates in mainframe disaster recovery exercises.
• Assists security team with z/OS mainframe security (Top Secret) and user profile issues.
• Performs mainframe system performance analysis, reporting and applies 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.
• Experience with TSO/ISPF, SDSF and JCL.
• Proficiency in Assembler, COBOL, REXX and SAS programming.