Mainframe System Analyst

Pyramid Consulting•Jersey City, NJ

23h•Remote

About The Position

The Mainframe System Analyst will analyze assigned interfaces and document how data and processes move across systems. The work includes creating independently verified source-to-target mappings and interface inventories, tracing batch jobs and files, investigating unclear or obsolete processes, and documenting findings, gaps, assumptions, and open questions. The analyst will provide version-controlled artifacts and a walkthrough for Navy Federal review against agreed acceptance criteria. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity with long-term potential, located remotely in the U.S.

Requirements

Experience or technical skills with COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, and copybooks/file layouts.
Technical skills with Systematics RM, Systematics IM, Systematics IT, Systematics GN, and ALS.
Ability to understand end-to-end interfaces, data flows, dependencies, batch processing, source and target systems, and application exchanges.
Ability to perform field-level source-to-target mapping and validate element IDs, offsets, lengths, and transformations.
Ability to independently verify information, trace processing, troubleshoot across platforms, and follow files, jobs, reports, and dependencies across systems.
Ability to identify business owners and subject matter experts and investigate unclear or obsolete processes despite incomplete information.
Ability to create clear, reusable documentation and artifacts understandable to technical and business partners.

Responsibilities

Provide independently verified source-to-target mappings for assigned interfaces.
Create interface inventories covering relevant layouts, element IDs, offsets, lengths, transformations, schedules, dependencies, and owners or subject matter experts.
Prepare applicable data-flow and process diagrams, batch/job/file traceability, investigation findings, documented gaps and open questions, and supporting PBIs or follow-up notes.
Document source evidence and unresolved assumptions, address review comments, and hand over version-controlled artifacts with a walkthrough for Navy Federal review against agreed acceptance criteria.
Understand end-to-end interfaces, data flows, dependencies, batch processing, source and target systems, and application exchanges.
Perform field-level source-to-target mapping and validate element IDs, offsets, lengths, and transformations.
Independently verify information rather than merely copying existing documentation.
Trace processing and troubleshoot issues across platforms; follow files, jobs, reports, and dependencies across systems.
Identify business owners and subject matter experts, and investigate unclear or obsolete processes and incomplete information.
Create clear, reusable interface documentation, mappings, process summaries, diagrams, PBIs, and supporting artifacts for technical and business partners.