Senior Mainframe Developer

Job Requirements:The Financial Systems Team at CPA is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Developer to join our Information Technology team. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining applications contributing to the Statewide Financial Systems team under the guidance of the Fiscal Management division.The primary responsibility for this role is to develop and implement advanced solutions in alignment with CPAs standards, guidelines, and design documentation. The candidate will perform coding, testing, debugging, and provide high-quality solutions for large-scale enterprise systems.The successful candidate will collaborate with both technical and non-technical staff to ensure seamless coordination of changes prepare test data, troubleshoot issues, and ensure systems meet availability and performance requirements. Strong technical proficiency and problem-solving skills are essential for this role.CPA will require the Candidate to work on the following initiatives and will perform advanced analysis/programming tasks such as:Participating in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle, including design, software development and code review.Performing extensive code reviews and analysis.Writing reports on code analysis to determine if industry standards and best practices are being followed; provide analysis to address found short comings.Providing guidance and knowledge sharing to existing development staff.Perform other duties as assignedSkillsets and Prerequisites:Experience making code changes in accordance with standards, guidelines, and design documents provided.Experience coordinating the testing, debugging, and preparing of test data and interacting with technical and non-technical staff in the coordination of changesProfessional experience in software development building production software systemsExperience with

IBM

Enterprise

COBOL for z/OSExperience with

IBM DB2

for

z/OSExperience with

MVS/JCLExperience with data integration and data qualityExperience with Software

AG's NATURALExperience with highly complex application security requirementsExperience with any of the Texas CPA Statewide Financial Systems:

USAS, USPS, SPRS, TINS, HRIS and SPA.Experience with

Agile development

experience with Scrum, Kanban, Jira, and ConfluenceProficient with the

Microsoft Office products , including Outlook, TEAMS, Microsoft Project, Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPointExperience with

CICS

Web ServicesExperience with

CONTROL-M for z/OSPublic sector experience (Federal, State or Local Government)Experience designing and implementing secure RESTful web services.Experience with:

code reviews and in-depth code analysis

and completing system documentation.Experience in developing and implementing containerized web applications in cloud with high proficiency in one or more languages from our stack (REACT JS, Node JS , Python,JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS etc.)Hands-on experience in Core

AWS Services

like

CloudFront, EC2, CloudFormation, Lamda, S3, Route53, AWS CDK,SNS & SQSExperience building apps using

Python, React JS, NodeJS , webservices, writing

RESTFul

interfacesExperience

designing and implementing secure RESTful

web servicesExperience

designing and implementing secure RESTful

web servicesExperience with Agile teams that have iteratively and incrementally delivered software while practicing code review.Experience with

Java programming

languageExperience with coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer to junior level software developers and other personnel as requiredExperience with

BMC Code Pipeline

(formerly Compuware ISPW)