Mainframe Support

Job Description:

• In our mainframe team (CPPS) we support multiple mainframe applications including but not limited to hundreds of programming objects behind the scenes.
• CPPS system interfaces with several external agencies for data exchanges, feeding into and driving some of crucial processes and transmitting data feeds into many agencies.
• The mainframe system, our CPPS team supports is critical to Civil Service Exams portfolio that is one of the most revenue generating areas for our City.
• This (CPPS) team is a key player for developing, maintaining, and providing 5 days a week type of production support for the intricate systems.
• The umbrella of systems compromised of (APPS) Exam Applications, Scoring Calculations, (LIST – phase between APPS and CERT behind the scene) Eligible Civil List Establishment System, (CERT) Certification of Civil List System, (PRISE) Personnel Processing System, Citywide Reference Data Maintenance System, Cross System Global Name & Address and SSN Maintenance System, (CEEDS) Citywide EEO System, (PICTS) Investigation System, Commodity Line Item (CLIPS) Processing System.
• The job requires day to day communication with the end user up to the Deputy Commissioner level, providing Business critical services, providing solutions to complex issues.
• There are close to 10,000 programming objects and hundreds of batch jobs with various frequencies such as Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Annual, Biennial, and hundreds of on request jobs, for the CPPS systems.
• The families of systems were developed in the 80s using hard to maintain Mainframe technology using ADABAS/NATURAL, COBOL, SAS, REXX and over the years have bridged to distributed platform technology using Secure FTP, IPSWITCH, WinSCP, Mail Merge, ACCESS, SQL Server just to mention some.
• Recently, the team also inherited CLIPS system last year, adding to an already overloaded group with over 3000 programming objects, hundreds of jobs/processes, and several interfacing systems.
• To successfully support and deliver within the designed time, we have converted a part of the APPS system over the period and still support all the backend processes.
• The consultant resource will perform the duties outlined in the Scope of Services section below, including but not limited to balancing the workload among the CPPS team members

MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Must have at least 5 years of hands-on development experience in Mainframe,
• ADABAS/NATURAL, JCL, TSO and Utilities
• Strong written and spoken communication skills
• Candidate must have strong interpersonal skills, Team Player, and Dynamic Thinker
• Detailed technical understanding of data and technical database design
• Develop Ad-hoc reports, extracts and processes using ADABAS/NATURAL and JCL
• Full software lifecycle experience from requirements thru implementation and production support
• Experience developing functional and technical design documents from business requirements
• Proven at least 5 years' technical experience in Mainframe applications customization and support.
• Provide Resumes of IT professional/s that will provide the Services.

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in system and data mapping and conversion preferred
• Experience with COBOL, SAS, REXX, CRM, .NET may be helpful
• Ability to work and support multiple projects at any time.
• Background check may be required.