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Overview:
TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is the second-largest private employer in Chicago. We are a multicultural, international community of more than 20,000 faculty and staff-each supporting UChicago's mission of inquiry and academic excellence.Our client is a Medical Center provides world-renowned patient care, while advancing medical science through groundbreaking research. Together, UChicago Medicine and the Biological Sciences Division are working to address the world's most pressing medical challenges.
Job Title: Programmer
Duration: 6 months
Location: Chicago, IL 60637
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology Sciences or equivalent proven experience of four years with a large-scale OS/MVS mainframe utilizing Cobol, CICS Command Level programming and VSAM files.
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in a large-scale OS/MVS mainframe environment utilizing CICS/COBOL/VSAM.
- Minimum of 5 years' demonstrated experience in the areas of structured systems analysis and design, utilizing COBOL and IBM JCL.
- Successful track record of enhancement, support, and projects through the systems lifecycle
- Excellent structured design and analysis skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with all levels of the work force from clerical staff through directors.
Preferred Competencies
- Focus on delivering high quality service, needs of the key stakeholders, end-users, service orientation, organizational communications and getting results
- Listening and communications build partnerships/relationships through listening for understanding. Express oneself effectively in oral and written communication, with diplomacy, openness, transparency, and with a high degree of confidentiality. Provide specific and appropriate feedback.
- Accountable, commitment and follow-through and be personally responsible for your actions. Take individual responsibility for performance including quality and quantity of work. Be willing to own issues, problems, activity, and accomplishments.
- Initiative and innovation pro-active approach in problem solving. Display creative approach to everyday problems, ask good questions, and stimulate ideas. Offer creative ideas for improvements and solutions to problems.
- Collaborative builds effective relationships with others. Works effectively as a member of a team. Open to assistance and willingness to assist others. Puts success of team above own interest.
Responsibilities:
- The overall goal of this position is to support the University's Financial applications, which includes the following primary functions.
- Perform monitoring and maintenance activities needed to maintain normal system operations.
- Perform analysis and programming tasks needed to correct system defects.
- Complete business service requests, which may include running system processes, investigation, analysis, and small programming assignments.
- Enhance applications as needed to support required business and compliance needs.
Responsibilities
- Enhance applications per business requests.
- Responsible for full system life cycle including gathering and analyzing user requirements, designing, creating program specifications, programming, unit and system testing, supporting user acceptance testing, training, implementation, and integration activities.
- Meet with different management and staff levels within the Financial Services and IT Services departments to analyze requests and resolve issues.
- Support applications and the associated business areas.
- Manage work intake and assist with prioritization.
- Investigate and answer questions about system processes and data.
- Fulfill requests for ad hoc reports.
- Support and maintain interfaces between the University's Financial applications, other University applications, and outside vendors on mainframe and Windows platforms.
- Test applications for new operating systems, programming tools, utilities, etc.
- Develop procedures and other documentation for support staff and users.
- Monitor system processes and correct system defects.
- Share rotating on-call responsibility for supporting daytime processing.
- Identify and resolve batch and online production problems. This includes tasks such as impact analysis, recovering data, fixing programs, and/or rerunning batch processes that are needed to return the application to normal operations.
- Take steps to prevent future production failures and data corruption.
- Perform root cause analysis for system defects and modify the system to correct them.
- Performs other related work as needed.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (m/f/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.
