IBM Mainframe Analyst

The Analyst Programmer is responsible for providing solution designs, support and development of Core banking IBM Mainframe based applications. This role undertakes business process analysis, systems design, requirements evaluation, software development, solution testing and implementation planning. The position provides ongoing operational and system governance support to business applications.

Liaising with business stakeholders and system experts to understand current and future business processes, system behaviors, data models and requirements. Producing technical specifications for applications, API data mapping and interfaces Supporting the project's architect and solution designers with solution building based on business requirements.

Working closely with the architect, project manager, development team, other designers, and the testing team to ensure requirements are understood. Ensure the test plans, acceptance criteria and outcome fulfill the requirements of the solution. Simplifying information and deciphering technical or non-technical jargon so it is easily understood by the whole team (internal & external stakeholders).

Manage ongoing requirements and change. Good Knowledge on OPC and Control-M/AFT batch scheduling . Prior experience working and designing Mainframe based Core Banking applications . Cloud experience ( Azure or AWS Amazon preference). Demonstrated experience and flexibility to adapt to Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid project methodologies.

Experience in usage of tools like RALLY, Confluence, Servicenab . Primary or Mandatory skills: Languages :

• JCL, Cobol, REXX, CICS & Ezytrieve Database :
• IMSDB/DC, DB2 & SQL Tools :
• Abend aid, Flie Aid, ICETOOL, DFSORT, Endevor, TWS, QMF, Q-Test, RALLY, JIRA, Confluence and Visio. Good to have skills: Languages :
• PL1, VB Script, SAS, Python. Database :
• RPL Tools :
• DB2 Platinum, Tableau, Splunk, Iron Stream