CW - COBOL CICS Engineer

Skills :     Software Engineer

Job Description:

This is a Non-Employee Contingent Worker Role providing services for TIAA’s family of companies and will be employed by TIAA's preferred 3rd Party Supplier. As a Non-Employee CW, perform a variety of moderately complex business planning, support, and project-related duties. Demonstrates an exceptional standard of quality and holds themselves accountable for achieving excellent results.

This role will sit onsite, likely in a hybrid capacity, at the location(s) listed in this posting.

The anticipated term of this engagement will be 9 months. This term could be extended based on company business needs.

CW-Principal Data Scientist
Provides advisory services and technical expertise on digital transformation consulting initiatives.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Performing advisory and supportive services regarding digital transformation issues to ensure organizational goals could be met leveraging digital technologies.
• Participating in the digital transformation roadmap design and development; constructing frameworks, standards, and guidelines.
• Interviewing and gathering data and information on organizational business processes and business models; defining and developing detailed technical requirements based on data analyses.
• Presenting and interpreting digital transformation solutions to management; collaborating to foster the implementation within the organization.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
9IC

a. Develop from scratch CICS programs that can facilitate read/write to both VSAM and MQ in the same program

b. Write CICS programs that can orchestrate the execution of both legacy and new CICS transactions in the same unit of work

c. Analyze and decompose complex CICS software systems and collaborate with and influence others to improve the overall design

d. Serve as the SME in CICS Development and Support

e. Troubleshoot and fix financial software problems as they occur

f. Make recommendations to Production Support, Development, and IT Management to streamline infrastructure and application performance to improve the overall customer experience

g. Act as a key advisor to Technical Leads and senior IT team members on Infrastructure and Architecture projects

h. Guide and participate in training other members of the team

Skillset:

COBOL, CICS, VSAM, MQ, JCL,

Knowledge of SQLServer and Java is a plus.