Bank of America Corporation
CICS Systems Programmer
Bank of America Corporation, Richmond, VA
Job Description:
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.
Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!
Job Summary:
This role is responsible for problem-solving and debugging support, interfacing with application developers as well as with other Customer Information Control System/Transaction Server (CICS/TS) personnel and working across various technical groups as needed. The role is crucial to our ability to maintain the CICS Environment in a high state of readiness and availability.
Job Description:
The CICS Systems Programmer supports a large-scale CICS/TS environment running in a zOS parallel SYSPLEX environment with complex multi-tiered applications making heavy use of MRO, IMS, VSAM files and DB2. This job is responsible for tool and service designs within a technical domain that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include creating infrastructure tools and their integration as a service, facilitating deployment of technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include looking for opportunities to improve efficiency when implementing and maintaining tools/services and embracing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
Skills:
Required Qualifications:
Desired Qualifications:
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.
Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!
Job Summary:
This role is responsible for problem-solving and debugging support, interfacing with application developers as well as with other Customer Information Control System/Transaction Server (CICS/TS) personnel and working across various technical groups as needed. The role is crucial to our ability to maintain the CICS Environment in a high state of readiness and availability.
Job Description:
The CICS Systems Programmer supports a large-scale CICS/TS environment running in a zOS parallel SYSPLEX environment with complex multi-tiered applications making heavy use of MRO, IMS, VSAM files and DB2. This job is responsible for tool and service designs within a technical domain that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include creating infrastructure tools and their integration as a service, facilitating deployment of technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include looking for opportunities to improve efficiency when implementing and maintaining tools/services and embracing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
- This function performs software implementation, maintenance, certification testing, development and documentation of operational procedures.
- The role is responsible for problem debugging and root-cause analysis
- Facilitates interaction with software vendors
- The group this position is part of will require some off-hours and weekend work as well as rotation in 24 x 7 ONCALL support
- Provides subject matter expertise and consulting services on a range of technologies and assists Technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers to ensure that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
- Assists with translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
- Assists in the evaluation of reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose
- Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes
- Conducts on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption
- Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
- Contributes to the creation/selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains
Skills:
- Analytical Thinking
- Application Development
- Automation
- Production Support
- Adaptability
- Business Acumen
- Solution Delivery Process
- Solution Design
- Collaboration
- Innovative Thinking
- Stakeholder Management
- Technical Strategy Development
Required Qualifications:
- Must have CICS Command Level language programming experience
- Technical background in the z/OS mainframe arena
- Knowledge of CICS/TS operations
- Must be proficient in the use of Job Control Language (JCL) and working with various vendor utility programs
- Must possess good analytical skills, debugging skills, knowledge of COBOL and
- Good communication skills, both written and oral, are required as the individual must interface with application developers, support teams, software vendors and management staff
- Must be willing to work some off-hours and weekends, as well as rotation in 24 x 7 on-call support
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with Rexx, CICS WEB Interface, and RACF
- Programming experience with Assembler, COBOL or Java
- Experince with zOS CONNECT and/or Zosmf
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40