CICS Systems Programmer

CICS Systems Programmer

Requirements

• Combined minimum of 9 years’ higher education and/or related work experience
• Experience reading and digesting technical information
• Detail-oriented
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience interpreting and/or discussing information with others, including senior management, which involves terminology or concepts not familiar to many people
• Strong customer focus, including proven experience managing customer needs and multiple work priorities
• Proven experience leading technical teams toward a common goal or project within a larger project
• Strong project management experience

Responsibilities

• Lead architect in project work in cross-functional teams; lead technical team within a project, driving the design of efforts.
• Attend vendor sponsored conferences as a representative of the Bank to seek out industry technology to utilize at the Bank.
• Provide thought leadership at vendor-sponsored conferences, presenting new technologies or providing industry leadership in new technologies.
• Review training opportunities that are available and make recommendations.
• Complete maintenance activity, including patching, health checks, operating system updates, validation of changes, and maintenance of operational and configuration standards following standard operating procedures.
• Research options when anomalies occur and choose best course of action; identify root cause of analogies in procedure.
• Schedule complex system changes to reduce operational risk.
• Provide after hour support as required for project implementations or responding to incidents. Determine root cause, identify permanent resolution and implement the fix. Facilitate discussion amongst team members during an incident and provide direction to less experienced staff to complete tasks to resolve the issue.
• Complete final review and approval of documentation created or updated by less experienced staff. Participate with management in creating documentation for senior management.
• Use tools to help automate processes and make systems more efficient, manageable, available, and secure.
• Drive discussion and direction with support capacity planning and development of long-term strategic goals for systems and software in conjunction with Engineering and Architecture. Participate with management to present recommendations to senior management.
• Respond to and resolve incidents; work with vendor to identify and implement fix. Provide guidance to less experienced staff. Identify root causes of system issues and work with partner teams to fix the root cause. Use advanced diagnostic tools to troubleshoot issues.
• Provide expert problem-solving of technical incidents based on mastery of system and adjoining systems.
• Provide guidance to less experienced team members.
• Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
• Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in technology-related field
• Combined minimum of 10 years’ higher education and/or related work experience
• Certifications or special training in Related Technologies
• Familiarity with Rexx Scripting, Python, DB2 and MQ as well as an interest in new Z technologies that span ISPF/TSO to GUI and modern applications.