Job description
Mainframe CICS Engineer
Job Number:
3232371
POSTING DATE: Feb 24, 2023
PRIMARY LOCATION: Americas-United States of America-Georgia-Alpharetta
OTHER LOCATIONS: Americas-United States of America-Massachusetts-Boston, Americas-United States of America-Oklahoma-Tulsa, Americas-United States of America-Texas-Houston, Americas-United States of America-Arkansas-Little Rock, Americas-United States of America-North Carolina-Charlotte, Americas-United States of America-Virginia-Mclean, Americas-United States of America-Connecticut-Greenwich, Americas-United States of America-Alaska-Anchorage, Americas-United States of America-Michigan-Birmingham, Americas-United States of America-Hawaii-Honolulu, Americas-United States of America-District of Columbia-Washington, Americas-United States of America-North Dakota-Fargo, Americas-United States of America-Utah-South Jordan, Americas-United States of America-Idaho-Boise, Americas-United States of America-Oregon-Portland, Americas-United States of America-Missouri-Clayton, Americas-United States of America-Iowa-Davenport, Americas-United States of America-Ohio-Columbus, Americas-United States of America-Minnesota-Minneapolis, Americas-United States of America-Tennessee-Knoxville, Americas-United States of America-Nevada-Reno, Americas-United States of America-South Dakota-Sioux City, Americas-United States of America-Kentucky-Louisville, Americas-United States of America-West Virginia-Charleston, Americas-United States of America-New Hampshire-Manchester, Americas-United States of America-Arizona-Scottsdale, Americas-United States of America-Rhode Island-Providence, Americas-United States of America-Wyoming-Sheridan, Americas-United States of America-Louisiana-New Orleans, Americas-United States of America-Nebraska-Omaha, Americas-United States of America-Wisconsin-Wauwatosa, Americas-United States of America-Illinois-Chicago, Americas-United States of America-Montana-Billings, Americas-United States of America-Vermont-Burlington, Americas-United States of America-Alabama-Birmingham, Americas-United States of America-Maine-Portland, Americas-United States of America-Georgia-Atlanta, Americas-United States of America-Delaware-Wilmington, Americas-United States of America-Pennsylvania-West Conshohocken, Americas-United States of America-Maryland-Baltimore, Americas-United States of America-Indiana-Indianapolis, Americas-United States of America-Florida-Miami, Americas-United States of America-Mississippi-Jackson, Americas-United States of America-South Carolina-Charleston, Americas-United States of America-Kansas-Leawood
EDUCATION LEVEL: Bachelor's Degree
JOB: Engineering
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full Time
JOB LEVEL: Vice President
DESCRIPTION
Morgan Stanley 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. 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 ethic. Morgan Stanley 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.
Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modeling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses—and to our own.
Enterprise Technology & Services (ETS) delivers shared technology services for Morgan Stanley supporting all business applications and end users. ETS provides capabilities for all stages of Morgan Stanley's software development lifecycle, enabling productive coding, functional and integration testing, application releases, and ongoing monitoring. ETS also delivers all workplace technologies (desktop, mobile, voice, video, productivity, intranet/internet) in integrated configurations that boost the personal productivity of employees. Application and end user functions are delivered on a scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure composed of seamlessly integrated datacenter, network, compute, cloud, storage, and database functions.
Mainframe Computing (MC) is a technology enabler for the business by providing a strong, resilient, and stable platform to host and enable business innovation/growth in our lines of business and global locations. MC consists of experienced administration, operations and engineering staff required to support the platform. In addition to flexible hours, the Firm enables its staff to work remotely. The mainframe engineers work with the latest hardware and software technologies. The IBM z platform and the mainframe disk and tape technologies are frequently refreshed across our datacenters.
The Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer is responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance, and CICS related operation functions. The candidate must be capable of working with CICS in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex and CICSPlex environment and must be able to interface with application developers and operations teams, provide guidance to junior members in the team. The CICS engineer should have in-depth knowledge in CICS performance & tuning, debugging and dump analysis, as well as strong organizational and communication skills, project management skills. On-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the CICS environment and to resolve issues.
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QUALIFICATIONS
Skills Required:
- Experience working in a 24x7 large scale, parallel Sysplex, CICSPlex, MQ sharing and DB2 data sharing environment with skills in CICSPlex SM implementation, customization and dynamic transaction routing, etc.
- Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrade, maintenance, installation and customization
- Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment
- Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions that pertain to CICS region functionality and performance
- Proficient in problem determination, dump analysis such as IPCS, and performance tuning
- Web services application support in a CICS TS V5 environment
- Knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics necessary to tune CICS regions
- Knowledge of the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS
- Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers
- Good oral/written communication skills
- Experience with auditing of CICS environment using U.S. standards
- Project management skills using tools such as Agile, Jira and Kanban
Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.
It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).
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