Mainframe Programmer Analyst

New York City, NY • Manhattan, NY

73d

About The Position

The Financial Information Services Agency and the Office of Payroll Administration (FISA-OPA) has a vacancy for a Mainframe Programmer Analyst in the FMS (Financial Management System). FMS is a financial management system developed on two separate platforms. The Accounting system is a Web based application, and the Budget system is a Mainframe based application. The candidate will be a member of the FMS Technical Systems team reporting to the FMS Inventory and Integration Services Team Lead. Under the direction of the Team Lead with wide latitude for independent judgment, the candidate will be responsible for support, maintenance and new development of the online as well as the batch mainframe programs. Additionally, the candidate will be responsible for packaging code for deployment, troubleshooting technical application issues across Production and Non-Production environments, performing ad-hoc technical tasks as directed by the Team Lead. The candidate will also conduct technical reviews of peer work, prepare formal evaluations of vendor deliverables and author technical designs. The candidate will also be required to be part of a rotation for nightly production support (on-call) every few weeks.

Requirements

• Strong experience in COBOL, COBOL II, JCL, JCL PROCS, IBM UTILITIES, SYNC Sort utility, File Aid utility.
• Experience with CICS (command level), DB2, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, DB2 UTILITIES is a plus.
• Experience with VSAM, TSO/ISPF, OS/MVS.
• Experienced as a Mainframe Programmer Analyst on at least (2) full life cycle project iterations, which included the design and developing of large scale Mainframe applications.
• Good understanding of standard SDLC methodologies.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Background in Accounting and/or Budgeting applications is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the FMS application software meets the City's functional and technical requirements by conducting reviews and formal evaluations of the application architecture/technical solutions and development work for quality, completeness, and adherence to FISA and industry standards.
• Develop new components and enhancements to the Financial Management Systems in the FMS suite of applications adhering to FISA and New York City development standards.
• Serve as an escalation point for the resolution of production application issues when application issues are encountered in the software during the online day by users and support staff in the evening during the execution of the batch cycle.
• Support software testing tracks in non-production application environments by providing batch cycle and technical software support.
• Design and execute technical tests as necessary to ensure that vendor and FISA software deliveries address the business and technical problems in a manner consistent with FISA standards for quality and completeness.
• Review and provide feedback on functional business designs in terms of technical feasibility and impact on performance, operability, and maintainability.
• Support FISA Business Units by helping to troubleshoot job flow and application execution problems during the simulation and production executions of FMS business events.
• Gather production operation requirements and incorporate the requirements into the products authored by the FISA development team.
• Coordinate with the Financial Systems Production Operations Units to implement new software processes into the staging and production environments.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Pension plan
• Deferred Compensation Plan (with 457, 401K and Roth IRA options)
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit program
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts programs
• Prescription drug coverage
• Dental benefits
• Vision care benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees