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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Strong mainframe programming skills in COBOL, JCL, CICS, and IMS.
• Production support experience; insurance or finance domain experience is preferred.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail, including the ability to understand complex business logic, analyze systems and data, identify needed changes, and assess impacts across products and system functionality.
• Basic experience with SQL and data analysis.
• Experience working in a cross-functional team on a complex mainframe system.
• Good problem-solving skills and a results-oriented outlook.
• Good communication skills and ability to work with varied stakeholders while managing concurrent deadlines and priorities.
• Continuous-improvement mindset and willingness to adapt to new technologies and ways of working.

Nice To Haves

• Experience migrating mainframe applications to other platforms.
• Knowledge of Assembler.
• Practical knowledge of Long-Term Care insurance products and premiums.
• Experience in a managed-services environment, including an onshore-offshore model, SLAs, and work queues.
• Experience working in an Agile environment, such as Scrum or Kanban.
• IMS database experience in an MVS and CICS environment.
• Exposure to the Product Accelerator tool.
• Advanced SQL programming experience.
• Experience with modern mainframe development and testing tools.
• Knowledge of automated COBOL conversion tools.

Responsibilities

• Support the Long-Term Care policy administration system by monitoring it, resolving failures, job abends, policy-related incidents, and system defects, and maintaining interactions with peripheral systems.
• Analyze user-raised incidents, help users complete business activities, determine issue impact, and propose solutions and approaches.
• Design, code, document, and test solutions to meet acceptance criteria, avoid unintended impacts, and fit the technical architecture.
• Support changes through testing, assist with test planning and defect resolution, perform technical system activities, and implement solutions through the established change-control process.
• Create reports from system data for analysis, business activities, and regulatory and audit requirements, including SOX audits.
• Complete departmental administrative duties, including participating in meetings and Agile ceremonies, responding to correspondence, providing status updates, managing tickets, and taking part in change-management activities.
• Take ownership of work and collaborate with the team to complete incidents in a timely manner according to severity, impact, and urgency.
• Assist team members with complex business or technical problems and provide technical advice on complex programming.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and total rewards incentives.
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage.
• Multiple 401(k) savings plan options.
• Auto-enrollment in an employer-directed retirement account feature that is 100% employer-funded.
• Paid time off, including 12 paid holidays, volunteer time off, and paid family leave.
• Disability, life, and long-term care insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment, and training and certification support.
• Wellness support, including gym membership reimbursement and Employee Assistance Program resources for work/life support and financial and legal management.
• Caregiver and mental health support services.