Company:
Health Care Service Corporation
Location: Chicago
Closing Date: 22/10/2024
Salary: £125 - £150 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Job Description
- Develop detailed technical specifications and designs for waterfall/XP projects / system enhancements.
- Provide application domain knowledge to the ADM team.
- Manage unstable applications / systems by helping to resolve incidents and issues.
- Support infrastructure first build with Solution Architects and Infrastructure Engineers.
- Review, guide, troubleshoot and resolve contentious issues escalated during implementation.
- Evaluate integration of SaaS / COTS packages to current environment.
- Develop operating procedures and user manuals for transition into routine operations.
- Enable building of knowledge databases for technology, solutions and domain areas.
- Work with architecture, application services, infrastructure, release management and other relevant stakeholders to enable a smooth deployment.
- Continuously work on capturing and transferring tacit knowledge to vendors and knowledge management systems.
- Maintain the common I/O access subsystem (database access layer) used to access these files.
- Maintain the in-house developed utilities that assist in managing the databases and their integrity.
- Manage the underlying test platforms and files used by developers maintaining these applications.
- Partner with system analysts and solution engineers to translate business and technical requirements into detailed designs that are secure, robust, scalable and extensible.
- Manage VSAM performance thru proper design and buffering, key design.
- Administer and use the CICS VR forward recovery utility (enterprise).
- Write or review responses to audit requests. SDO severity and authorization reports.
- CICS ABEND reporting.
- Production and Test problem determination and debugging.
- Capacity planning.
- Testing processes for select system software upgrades.
Required Job Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree and 4 years Information Technology OR Technical Certification and/or College Courses and 6 years Information Technology experience OR 8 years Information Technology experience.
- Knowledge of application configuration.
- Knowledge of Big Data Analytics - HAVeN / HADOOP/ Autonomy / Vertica.
- Knowledge of Cloud computing / SaaS / IaaS / PaaS technologies.
- Knowledge of Integration Technologies - Tibco/Informatica/CAS.
- Knowledge of Mobile technologies - Phonegap / iOS / Android / Java / HTML5.
- Knowledge of Scripting Languages - BASH / PERL / PYTHON / RUBY.
- Service Oriented Architecture - SOAP / REST.
- Web Technologies - HTML/CSS/Java/ASP.Net/PHP/Ruby/C#.
- Rapid prototyping.
- Requirements definition & management.
- SDLC Methodology - Agile / Scrum / Iterative Development.
- System Performance management.
- Conceptual thinking.
- Creative thinking.
- Problem solving and analytical thinking.
- Strong oral/written communication skills.
Preferred Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology related.
- Ability to execute.
- VSAM File:
- Backup and Restore.
- Forward Recovery.
- Conversions for filler expansion, key restructuring etc.
- Reorganizations and free space tuning.
- Naming convention standards.
- Special loads and reports or extract.
- Logstream management and design.
- Master file copybook creation and copybook change management.
- Disaster Recovery support.
- Data flow and file design and access key design consulting.
- Creation and initialization of test databases.
- Test copies of production files.
- Ad hoc record fixes.
- Batch tuning consultation.
- CICS memory and CICS topology.
- CICS VR administration.
- Support / Maintain database related applications:
- Blue Chip Term Up (GTUP) and Terminal Operator File (GTOF) transactions.
- Record locking "Exclusive Control" process.
- Early morning production file availability transaction (EAIN).
- Key Range Verify program to ensure the integrity of partitioned files.
- SDO authorization reports. Audit requests and reports.
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