Mainframe Engineer (Onsite Hybrid) - Jersey City, NJ

Job Responsibilities Include: - Provide thought & technical leadership for the key initiatives. - Developing and maintaining architecture solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data. - Setting, communicating, and reinforcing technical standards - Providing leadership for junior and senior engineers alike, by understanding how to leverage and enhance their current skills - Assessing and researching current implementations of the platform and determining the course of action required to elevate the platform to meet customer needs. - Working with Operations to plan major infrastructure upgrades, to troubleshoot issues and to tune the environment for optimal performance and uptime - Collaborating with peers and management on process improvement ideas, policy and procedure enhancements, and opportunities to improve our customer's service experience. - Participating in code review and unit testing and providing support on issues in non-prod or production

Basic Qualifications: - 8+ years on COBOL, DB2, VSAM and JCL. - 5+ years CICS System knowledge would be valuable. Preferred Skills: - Good understanding of CICS Dynamic Transaction Routing process. - Should be familiar with DB2 tools, File-Aid, scheduler and debugger tools. - Understanding of Distributed Applications/ System - Exposure to Brokerage/Finance domain will be an added advantage - Prior experience of working in highly transactional, fault tolerant and data driven systems. - Ability to identify areas of risk or potential problems and take action to mitigate them and work with less experienced staff to mitigate more complex issues. - Ability to apply different communication and leadership styles for different teams and geographies. - Ability to lead through influence and know what data is needed to drive effective decisions - Ability to assess and plan project, and stakeholders needs, and manage deadlines, risks. - Ability to anticipate roadblocks, diagnose problems and generate effective solutions - Ability to build communication and rapport with partners, stakeholders. - Ability to adapt in a changing environment and be effective in many different business settings. - Ability to take initiative, define vision for betterment of products, and execute at high level of quality