Lead Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities & Qualifications Essential Functions:

Performs Project Management functions

Assists with analysis on proposed projects, providing input to system design solutions based on business requirements

Reviews and approves technical specifications

Provides Business users and IT Management with time estimates and target dates

Plans and organizes programming tasks in order to meet target dates

Monitors project progress and makes adjustments in workflow, personnel and target dates as needed

Conducts system walk-throughs with programming team and business users

Reports project status, problems and concerns to IT management and business users

Coordinates with Business Users, other IT Development teams, Data Center, Information System Security and 3rd parties as needed on projects

Coordinates security and audit considerations with users and Internal Audit department

Reviews developer test plans and test results

Reviews Business User Acceptance test plans and test results

Performs various IT organizational functions

Maintains assigned project information via our Project Tracking Systems

Creates and maintains project plans

Maintains good user relations

Meets with Business users and IT management to determine project priorities

Provides on-call support for each of our environments (production, user integration test UAT, and systems integration test SIT)

Qualifications

10 years of work experience in IT, with Programming background and 3 to 5 years’ project management experience over Mainframe Projects

4-year IT college degree a plus

3 to 5 years management experience

Experience in COBOL, DB2, CICS, and JCL in a z/OS environment is required

Experience with Distributed programming skills is a plus

Experience with Agile and Waterfall project methodologies

Experience in project life cycle phases including analysis, design, programming and implementation

Excellent organization, verbal and written communication skills

Excellent analytical skills

Advanced interpersonal skills

Ability to work independently with minimal direct supervision