Title: IT Software Engineer 4 (Mainframe)
Building Location: Peoria, IL - LC Building
Remote Possibility: 5x days a week in the office
Estimated Duration: 1 year and 6 months
Client: Caterpillar
USC/GC/EAD
Job Description
THE GCIO SD&D team manages multiple critical Mainframe applications. We seek a mainframe developer who will be able to help our team members support incidents and changes. Many of these applications are complex. Incident resolution will require investigating how jobs work and understanding the business logic embedded in these applications to find the incident root cause. We then expect that the analyst will provide inputs/guidance to other teams to solve incidents.
We also manage many modernization projects, migrating Mainframe applications to a modern solution. Future candidates will also help team members with future modernization project efforts.
She/he will also be able to coordinate changes to computer databases, test, and implement the database, applying knowledge of database management systems.
Education & Experience Required:
- Associate's degree in computer programming or equivalent training required with 8 years’ experience.
- Bachelor’s degree with 5- 7 years’ experience
Top 3 Skills
1. Mainframe
2. Communication
3. Teamwork
Additional Technical Skills
(Required)
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with COBOL programming on IBM z/OS
- Proficiency in JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS, and CICS
- $AVRS
- ACF2 rules
- Sequential files (naming scheme)
- OPC (scheduling)
- Strong communication skills
(Desired)
- Experience in mainframe migration projects or modernization initiatives is preferred.
- Prior experience with ServiceNow
Soft Skills
- Must have good communication, interpersonal skills.
- End user knowledge in IBM mainframe and/or any ERP.
- Strong initiative and the ability to learn quickly are desired.
- Should have good team skills and positivity for working in a cooperative and diverse team environment.
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
- The GCIO SD&D team manages multiple critical Mainframe applications.
- We seek a mainframe developer who will be able to help our team members support incidents and changes.
- Many of these applications are complex. Incident resolution will require investigating how jobs work and understanding the business logic embedded in these applications to find the incident root cause.
- We then expect that the analyst will provide inputs/guidance to other teams to solve incidents.
Why Caterpillar? “Whether it be ground-breaking products, best-in-class solutions, or a lifelong career, you can build what matters to you at Caterpillar. With 150 locations in countries around the world, what you create at Caterpillar travels and helps people around the world. You can collaborate with the best minds in the industry, complete meaningful work, and continuously grow and develop through our various opportunities. Here, you can do the work that matters.”
Why this Role?
- We have more and more incidents that require strong investigations to understand the root cause, and that will require working with other teams for resolution.
- For this reason, candidates will need strong mainframe and communications skills.
Typical task breakdown:
- We also manage many modernization projects, migrating Mainframe applications to a modern solution. Future candidates will also help team members with future modernization project efforts.
- She/he will also be able to coordinate changes to computer databases, test, and implement the database, applying knowledge of database management systems.
Interaction with the team:
- Many of our mainframe applications communicate with modern tools (such as Cognos, Power BI, ThoughtSpot, and Java applications) supported by other team members.
- Mainframe IT Analyst will work closely with experienced team members to support current applications and to help in our modernization efforts.