Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer (PART- TIME )

USAA•San Antonio, TX

8h•Hybrid

About The Position

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families. Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful. The Opportunity This position sits within the Mainframe Infrastructure Services organization, supporting the Mainframe platform for USAA. The candidate selected will work with a team to support the CICS system and supporting tools. Responsibilities include ensuring continuous availability, Mainframe knowledge transfer to junior team members, troubleshooting, researching issues, performance and optimization. Additionally, the selected candidate will identify and act on opportunities for monitoring and alerting, operational efficiency, and automation. Responsible for creating, modifying, maintaining and supporting infrastructure and individual and integrated system components and solutions that enable and IT Services. Balance availability, security, efficiency and functional requirements to help provide an optimized production service. Identify and manage existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and ensure these risks are effectively identified and escalated to be measured, monitored and controlled. We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position will be based in our San Antonio, TX facility. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or 4 additional years of experience beyond the minimum requirement can be used in lieu of a degree.
6 years of infrastructure experience demonstrating depth of technical understanding within a specific discipline(s)/technology(s) to include 2 years' experience in Systems Operations environment supporting complex environment deployment and infrastructure management activities or applicable IT experience such as IT Management, Software Development, Data Engineering, and Agile Product/Release Management.
4 years of experience in creating, modifying, and maintaining infrastructure and individual system components.
Advanced level of business acumen in the areas of business operations, risk management, industry practices and emerging trends.
Knowledge and proficient understanding of designing scalable IT system infrastructures, implementing system changes, or automating service delivery and maintenance tasks.
Demonstrated experience working with cloud technologies and tools.

Nice To Haves

Mainview for CICS and z/OS
Dump reading skills using IPCS or Fault Analyzer
Assembler Coding Skills
z/OS Connect expertise

Responsibilities

Independently designs scalable IT system infrastructure, provides oversight and priority for system change – reserves execution for complex implementations, and automates service delivery and maintenance tasks; provides direction and priority for monitoring and tooling activities.
Independently resolves highly complex technology production issues and leads troubleshooting of end-to-end solutions that span across multiple systems.
Leads analysis of end-to-end system failures to identify opportunities across multiple systems. Makes recommendations to business leaders on best solutions.
Independently experiments with new patterns and technologies Helps establish and improve engineering best practices, concepts, and patterns with peers and the business.
Understands the customer and proactively identifies innovative solutions and ideas for the product/business.
Mentors’ engineers, coach engineers on design, development, and maintenance of systems.
Develop software defined infrastructure in code in CI/CD Pipelines Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.