Job description
Precisely is the leader in data integrity. We empower businesses to make more confident decisions based on trusted data through a unique combination of software, data enrichment products and strategic services. What does this mean to you? For starters, it means joining a company focused on delivering outstanding innovation and support that helps customers increase revenue, lower costs and reduce risk. In fact, Precisely powers better decisions for more than 12,000 global organizations, including 93 of the Fortune 100. Precisely’s 2500 employees are unified by four company core values that are central to who we are and how we operate: Openness, Determination, Individuality, and Collaboration. We are committed to career development for our employees and offer opportunities for growth, learning and building community. With a “work from anywhere” culture, we celebrate diversity in a distributed environment with a presence in 30 countries as well as 20 offices in over 5 continents. Learn more about why it’s an exciting time to join Precisely!
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A Mainframe Software Engineer is responsible for solving complex issues and developing unique solutions to make our customers successful. Our customers depend on our highly skilled technical engineers in our Research & Development group to help drive their success. Strong problem-solving skills, communication, and the ability to develop creative solutions are a must.
EDUCATION
- BS in Computer Science required / MS in Computer Science (desirable)
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design, develop and test new features or product changes
- Experience working in a collaborative team environment following Agile development methodologies
- Address and resolve issues quickly and effectively to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Investigate, analyze, debug and solve complex problems.
- Replicate customer issues in house and work closely with QA and Support teams to resolve problems when required.
- Be able to understand the complexities of enterprise systems and be able to determine if the cause of an issue is the product, third party libraries, user developed code or jobs, or platform libraries.
- Debug issues and implement resolutions in multiple product areas across a variety of environments.
- Design and implement product functionality to meet customer requirements, including tools to aid in debugging and resolving customer problems.
- Ability to adequately document and describe product changes or features.
- Create comprehensive internal and external Knowledge Base documentation for use by customers and team members.
- Take advantage of the team’s collective knowledge and tools, to be able to quickly determine the best solutions.
- Continuously learn new technology, tools, systems, and sharing knowledge within the team.
REQUIRED SKILLS and EXPERIENCE
A minimum of 2 years’ experience working with IBM mainframes running z/OS operating system is required. Ideally, this is in a systems related role, such as Operations or Systems Programming.
A minimum of 5 years, 10 is preferred. IBM z Assembly language experience is required with storage management background is highly desired. Experience with other languages such as REXX, Cobol a benefit.
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, with experience with IPCS and reading system dumps.
Working knowledge of major z/OS ecosystem and subsystem components - JES, DFSMS, WLM, DB2, CICS, RACF, SMF, SMP/E, VSAM and USS.
Proficient in use of systems tools and utilities – JCL, SDSF, IDCAMS.
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the goal to provide the best experience to our customers.
Self-motivated and enthusiastic when working with difficult problems and tight deadlines.
A strong desire to learn new technology and the ability to understand new concepts quickly.
Understanding of software design principles, software development lifecycle, system design, networking architecture, and database systems and concepts.
Knowledge and experience with the following are a plus –
- Space Recovery Systems (SRS)
- Syncsort Mainframe products such as MFX, Ironstream, Zen, EZ-DB2,
- IBM Mainframe products DFSort, zCDP, Netview
- z/OS Sorting, batch processing, security, or metric collection.
- Working knowledge of other OS platforms such as Linux, Unix
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