Job Administration/Production Control Technician

City of New York•New York, NY

1d•$75,000 - $87,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Financial Information Services Agency (FISA) is hiring a Job Administration/Production Control Technician who reports to the night Shift Supervisor. The technician monitors job flows controlled by the CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries) scheduling system. Jobs run on z/OS mainframe, UNIX, or PeopleSoft servers. The role responds to job failures by identifying their general cause and contacting the appropriate on-call staff member for remediation. It also occasionally involves migrating software to production and/or test environments, documenting problems, setting up job flow dependencies, and executing and troubleshooting test flows. The position is located at 5 Manhattan West in New York City, near Madison Square Garden and Hudson Yards. The schedule is three consecutive days per week, from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., including weekends and holidays. Workdays rotate on a predetermined schedule: four weeks Monday through Wednesday, followed by four weeks Thursday through Saturday.

Requirements

Three to five years of related scheduling experience with a Windows-based scheduling system.
Five years of experience escalating and documenting critical job failures and schedule problems.
Five years of hands-on experience executing and performing preliminary troubleshooting activities involving schedulers, batch processes, and cycle flows.

Nice To Haves

Extensive production-control experience with mainframe or mid-range computers.
Familiarity with establishing job dependencies.
Experience troubleshooting JCL errors and using GDGs, File-AID, and IDCAMS.
Knowledge of CA Workload Automation DE or a similar enterprise scheduling package.
Knowledge of z/OS JCL and TSO/ISPF.
Experience with mainframe compile, link, and bind procedures.
Familiarity with FTPS and/or Connect:Direct file transfer protocols.
Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills.
Strong understanding of standard SDLC methodologies.
Knowledge of IMS, D82, and UNIX.
Knowledge of PUTTY and WinSCP.
Familiarity with Rational Tools, including ClearQuest and ClearCase.
Familiarity with Microsoft Word and Excel.
Knowledge of PeopleSoft People Tools, including Process Monitor.

Responsibilities

Monitor job flows controlled by the CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries) scheduling system.
Respond to job failures by determining the general cause and contacting the appropriate on-call staff member for remediation.
Occasionally migrate software to production and/or test environments.
Document problems.
Set up job flow dependencies.
Execute and troubleshoot test flows.