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Job Title: Mainframe Systems Consultant

Job Description: We are seeking a highly skilled Mainframe Systems Consultant with extensive experience in IBM and CA mainframe environments. The ideal candidate will possess strong programming skills in REXX and COBOL, along with proficiency in JCL, TSO/E, ISPF/PDF, Connect:Direct scripting, and CA mainframe tools such as CA-View, CA-Deliver, and CA-ESP. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining and debugging REXX applications related to Debt Input Management, providing mentoring and on-the-job training to staff, and supporting Debt Software Testing and Operations teams in troubleshooting and resolving mainframe-related issues.

Responsibilities:

1. Mentor and provide on-the-job training to Debt File Processing Operations and Software Testing staff on mainframe technologies, Debt Mainframe Input Management file processing operations, and mainframe troubleshooting techniques.
2. Support Debt Software Testing team in troubleshooting and resolving agency debt file testing issues, and assist with Input Management configuration setup on the mainframe for agency file testing.
3. Troubleshoot and resolve mainframe Debt file processing production operational issues related to Input Management application, Connect:Direct file processing, CA ESP, or any other mainframe-related issue.
4. Develop, test, and implement mainframe Input Management application code changes and configuration changes to support Debt onboarding new file types and agency file transfer changes.
5. Assist DDM staff in developing and reviewing file transfer requirements to support moving data files for TOP, Cross-Servicing, and CRS from the mainframe through MoveIT and/or Sterling File Gateway products to/from AWS S3 landing pad buckets.
6. Support testing and validating TOP, Cross-Servicing, and CRS file transfer functionality between the Mainframe, MoveIT and/or Sterling File Gateway, and AWS S3 landing pad buckets.
7. sist DDM staff in developing and reviewing file transfer requirements to support moving external customers' data file transfers for TOP, Cross-Servicing, and CRS off the mainframe to MoveIT and/or Sterling File Gateway products.
8. Support testing and validating file transfers between external customers for TOP, Cross-Servicing, and CRS with MoveIT and/or Sterling File Gateway and with AWS S3 landing pad buckets.
9. Develop, test, implement, and maintain mainframe REXX routines to purge DDM Debt data files off the mainframe that meet data retention schedules and create an audit log for the purged data files.

Qualifications:

• 10 years of IBM Mainframe experience
• Proficiency in REXX and COBOL programming
• Strong knowledge of JCL, TSO/E, and ISPF/PDF
• Experience with Connect:Direct scripting
• 10 years of CA mainframe experience, including expertise in CA-View, CA-Deliver, and CA-ESP
• Experience in maintaining and debugging REXX applications
• Experience in migration of Input Management code/scripts changes to UAT and production environments

Deliverable: Provide a monthly report of completed tasks.