ADABAS Engineer

Our client is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. 

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. This institution can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.  Technology works as a strategic partner with our client’s business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Our client’s sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modelling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses—and to our own.  Institutional Corporate Technology (ICT) is part of Technology. This group is responsible for developing enterprise applications for a diverse set of businesses including Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Investment Banking, Research, and Global Capital Markets. In addition, ICT provides technology solutions for client-aligned groups and company-wide divisions, such as Finance and Operations, post-trade functions within the Institutional Securities Group and standardized data and enterprise-wide services to provide leverage to the Firm's businesses. 

Responsibilities include installation, configuration, customization, maintenance, performance tuning and vendor escalation for ADABAS and related products. In addition, the group maintains and upgrades the mainframe programming language environment (Natural) and associated development environment and tools. The engineering team is responsible for Engineering level support of the ADABAS product suite and requires exceptional problem solving and analytical skills.

• Exceptional ADABAS skills and experience (V7.4.4 and above) Internals / Fundamentals / Installation / Operations
• ADABAS Cluster Services and Parallel Services configurations experience
• FASTPATH configurations experience
• VISTA translations and expanded files configuration experience
• ADABAS Net-Work configuration experience
• Assembler knowledge and coding skills
• Strong Natural experience both in working with Natural and Installing Natural. Natural V4 Internals required.

• Predict, Entire System Server, Natural ISPF, Natural DB2 experience required.
• MVS z/OS concepts and fundamentals experience.
• Strong JES2 JCL experience
• CICS environment knowledge.
• SAS coding knowledge.
• Project Management skills.
• Knowledge of Windows products such as Word, excel etc

Weekend work and on-call rotation required
After hours work required on as needed basis for problem escalation