Mainframe Support
Mainframe Support
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Job Description
Position: Mainframe Support
Duration: 1 year
Location: 1 Centre St New York NY 10007 (hybrid)
Job Justification:
In our mainframe team (CPPS) we support multiple mainframe applications including but not limited to hundreds of programming objects behind the scenes. CPPS system interfaces with several external agencies for data exchanges feeding into and driving some of crucial processes and transmitting data feeds into many agencies.
- The mainframe systems our CPPS team supports is critical to Civil Service Exams portfolio that is one of the most revenue generating areas for our City. This (CPPS) team is a key player for developing maintaining and providing 5 days a week type of production support for the intricate systems. The umbrella of systems compromised of (APPS) Exam Applications Scoring Calculations (LIST phase between APPS and CERT behind the scene) Eligible Civil List Establishment System (CERT) Certification of Civil List System (PRISE) Personnel Processing System Citywide Reference Data Maintenance System Cross System Global Name & Address and SSN Maintenance System (CEEDS) Citywide EEO System (PICTS) Investigation System Commodity Line Item (CLIPS) Processing System. The job requires day to day communication with the end user up to the Deputy Commissioner level providing Business critical services providing solutions to complex issues.
- There are close to 10000 programming objects and hundreds of batch jobs with various frequencies such as Daily Weekly Monthly Quarterly Annual Biennial and hundreds of on request jobs for the CPPS systems.
- The family of systems were developed in the 80s using hard to maintain Mainframe technology using ADABAS/NATURAL COBOL SAS REXX and over the years have bridged to distributed platform technology using Secure FTP IPSWITCH WinSCP Mail Merge ACCESS SQL Server just to mention some.
- Recently the team also inherited CLIPS system last year adding to an already overloaded group with over 3000 programming objects hundreds of jobs/processes and several interfacing systems. To successfully support and deliver within the designed time we have converted a part of the APPS system over the period and still support all the backend processes.
- The consultant resource will perform the duties outlined in the Scope of Services section below including but not limited to balancing the workload among the CPPS team members
Employment Type
Full Time
