Our client, a leading financial services company, is hiring a Mainframe Business Analyst on a contract basis.
Job ID: 82605
Work Location:
New York, NY (Hybrid Working Model)
Summary:
The 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 ethics. The client 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.
Our Team comprises of highly innovative & talented employees and consultants working in worldwide network of offices located globally. We are looking for a hands-on Mainframe Business Analyst to join our team, which focuses on Payment’s processing applications. The team believes in continuous improvement and extensively uses agile methodology as an enabler for quality, stability, and efficiency of applications.
Responsibilities:
• Analysis of legacy Mainframe payments system (both code and data) to define current functionality and translate into requirements for the on-going conversion to a renovated system
• Development of test cases to exhaustively prove that renovated functionality mirrors the legacy behavior
• Contributing to decisions concerning strategic direction, prioritization and migration
• Being comfortable and effective working in a continuously changing fast paced environment
• Collaborating with other global IT & business teams
Required Qualifications:
• 5-8+ years of Business Analysis or development in mainframe environment
• Bachelors Degree in computer science or related field
• Skills in Adabas Natural, JCL, TSO
• Strong Domain expertise in Cash Payments, Payment life cycle, SWIFT messaging and/or Security Settlement
• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to clearly explain program logic in business terms
• Excellent interpersonal skills and professional approach
• Experience of COBOL, DB2, VSAM, Fileaid, procs, Unix
• Familiarity with Prompt Engineering in order to efficiently use GenAI tools to explain system behavior
• Project management experience
• Presentation skills
• Knowledge of Data Transfer protocols such as NDM, FTP
• Knowledge of IBM Z Mainframe and z/OS
• Knowledge of OS/390 Operations
• Agile development, Rally and/or JIRA
Pay Rate: $50- $64/annual W2