The Financial Information Services Agency (FISA) has a vacancy for a Mainframe Development Lead.
FISA maintains a mainframe Payroll Management System (PMS) that is integrated with the City's Timekeeping (CItyTime) and Personnel (NYCAPS) applications. Additionally, there are integrated interfaces between PMS to the Financial Management System (FMS) for active employees. Also, FISA maintains a mainframe Pension Payroll Management System (PPMS) that is integrated and interfaces with five separate pension agencies for retirees. Mainframe development work is triaged through the analyst group and as the mainframe development lead, the Lead manages 10+ programmer analyst staff and provides expert technical and functional analyses related to mainframe applications. At the direction of the Technical Systems Director, the Lead shall review the business/technical requirements, and provide technical guidance as well as architectural suggestions. The Lead shall manage the overall work for the group in supporting the current ongoing development work, assist in the design, review, and support highly complex PMS replacement projects. The Lead shall work closely with the FISA analytic, testing, and operations staff to create accurate and efficient processes. The Lead shall provide programmer analyst resource support for production payroll and pension payroll activities.

Primary Responsibilities:

Manage programmer analyst staff and work in a techno-functional capacity with a strong understanding of business processes, mainframe programming (COBOL), and relational databases to manage programmer analyst staff, design, program, review, and assist in determining impact of change to programs and systems. The Lead shall also review and analyze program specifications to determine the effort needed to make changes. The Lead shall also maintain, schedule, as well as be part of the On-Call duty roster for overnight and weekend batch HR/Payroll and Timekeeping processes.

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or

2. An associate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or

3. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or

4. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1", "2", or "3" above.

- 10+ years as a senior mainframe (COBOL/IMS/DB2) programmer - 10+ years experience with JCL/PROCS/CTLCARDS - 10+ years experience designing, programming, and architecture in a mainframe environment - 10+ years experience with production coverage and troubleshooting - 10+ years experience with RMDS/EXPEDITER/File-Aid for IMS/DB2 - 7+ years experience with the management of Technical Staff - 7+ years experience designing the architecture of mainframe applications and dependencies - 7+ years experience in the preparation of structure charts or invocation diagrams - 5+ years experience of the City's legacy payroll and pension payroll management systems - 5+ years experience of the City's personnel processing - 5+ years experience of the City's timekeeping processing - Excellent understanding of systems development lifecycle methodologies - Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and problem solving skills. - Self-motivated with ability to work well with other groups in an enterprise wide, large-scale matrix environment. - Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to establish a roadmap for operational improvement - Excellent communication skills (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational and strong project management skills. - Self-motivated with ability to work well with other groups in an enterprise wide, large-scale matrix environment

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New York City Residency is not required for this position

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