Brief Role Description with Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of developers in the execution of development pipeline and delivery of the organization’s software products to QA, and ultimately to Production.
• Manage day-to-day activities and influence team members to leverage, follow and support agile software development practices.
• Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget.
• Work with Scrum Master and product owner to provide development sizings & cost analysis estimates.
• Work closely with product owner and team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks.
• Utilize automated software test tools and frameworks such as test driven development to achieve software quality standards. Support integration efforts to build whole systems from various subsystems.
• Support release manager to assemble releases and drive improvements in the release process.
• Assist Scrum Master in resolving needs and roadblocks identified by team members.
• Ensure the coordination of individual team deliverables are synchronized as necessary to achieve product releases.
• Provide hands-on development and mentoring as necessary for other members of the development team. Identify technology risks early and establish mitigation plans.
• Create artifacts for each project such as Software Architecture documentation, Technical Use Cases, and Code Review Packages.
• Meet periodically with onshore and offshore developers to review and improve code quality, requirements specification and design methodologies.

Must Have Skills

• COBOL, CICS, DB2, Basic IBM OS/Z, SQL, JCL, MQ

Preferred Skills:

• 10+ years of professional experience building high performance Mainframe applications using Cobol.
• Deep experience with the following: VSAM, ISPF, MVS, Websphere MQ.
• Familiarity with Rational Application Developer, TFS / Jira.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Experience with web services (SOAP, REST) is a plus.
• Experience with XML is a plus.
• Experience with Java or .Net is a plus.
• Strong leadership capabilities with architect ambitions.
• Strong interest in industry trends, technology innovation, and best practices.
• Experience with Agile Development Practices, particularly Scrum, a plus.

Reach me at :

Ajay Kumar Business Development Manager | Geekymindz p: +1 (972) 957-8592 e: [email protected] www.geekymindz.com