z/OS CICS 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. 

Responsible for installing, customizing and maintaining all software that run in the CICS environment. Position also includes on-call support responsibilities as well as providing technical support to end-user community.

Skills Required:

• Strong knowledge of CICS, CICSplex and SMP/E

• Experience working with: Cobol, VSAM, JCL, CA-Top Secret / RACF, CA-Intertest, IPCS, CICS Performance Analyzer, SAS, IBM Utilities, DB2, diagnostic tools such as Omegamon/CICS and Mainview for CICS

• Experience with coding and supporting CICS exits and replaceable modules

• Proficiency in the maintenance of IBM CICS software

• Skilled at troubleshooting problems in a CICS environment.

• Strong dump analysis skills using IPCS

• Working knowledge of CICS Web Services and CICS Transaction Gateway, Natural, Adabas and Assembler

• Weekend work and on-call rotation required

• Self-motivated individual and a team player

• Good verbal and written English communications skills

• 10 years of relevant experience

• Candidates with less experience but demonstrate strong growth potential will also be considered

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.