Introduction In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
IBM Application Consultants work directly with our clients on key initiatives. You will have the opportunity to build an in-depth understanding of their business issues and implement organizational strategies that drive adoption of change. We are looking for experts who can build credibility and trust with our clients and provide knowledge that addresses individual and unique business needs.
Your Role and Responsibilities You will work with our customers in developing and modernizing applications that can fully leverage the advanced and new capabilities the IBM zOS Mainframes, interoperate with and extend to the IBM Redhat OCP and other cloud ecosystem. You will work on challenging and interesting initiatives, at the forefront of Mainframe Application Development and Cloud Adoption.
Identify, evaluate, recommend and work with IBM Partner Ecosystem for niche Language and Data Migration
Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated testing
Excellent communication skills with ability to simplify complex problems for a variety of stake holders including Client Architects and CXOs
Experienced in Estimation process and practices
Domain exposure to Financial Service, Retail, Healthcare
Ability to lead technical delivery teams and influence client executives
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
12+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing and maintaining large scale mainframe applications
Expert in core mainframe technologies: zOS, Cobol, CICS, DB2, JCL and VSAM
Good understanding of NextGen Mainframe Application Development and Testing Tools like IDz, ADFz, DBB, Git, Jenkins and UCDz
Good understanding of SCM and Schedulers on mainframe
Experience in Mainframe Application and Data Integration solutions like MQ, CTG, CICS Web Services, zOSConnect, ETL and CDC
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Exposure / ability to quickly pick up additional technologies where needed: IMS DB/DC, Assembler, PL/1 etc
Experience in using Source Code analysis tools like ADDI, CAST AIP, Microfocus EA
About Business Unit
IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
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