Lead Consultant - Bangalore, India - Allstate Insurance Company
Description
Job Description
As a mainframe developer responsible for managing, maintaining, and supporting the mainframe applications. This may involve production support, maintenance, enhancements, testing, CICD deployment etc.
Primary Skills: Mainframe, Assembler, SAS, JCL, Cobol, DB2
Secondary Skills: VSAM, Easytrieve, CICS
Job Responsibilities
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
• Perform research, analysis, design, planning, coding, and testing
• Investigate and resolve routine or common incidents and issues
• Plan and execute automation/streamlining activities to reduce manual efforts/cost
• Participates in project calls with stakeholders representing our applications and asses the impacts and action items for our applications
• Participate in the support, coordination, and execution of scheduled maintenance activities including validation during upgrades, DR tests, etc.
• Be available for project and maintenance activities outside normal working hours, if needed
• Proficient in multiple programming languages with depth of knowledge within specific tech stacks (application languages, algorithms, database normalization, data structures, common tools, etc.,)
• Comfort in modern computing techniques inclusive of TDD, CI/CD, Human-Centered design, code management including reuse, secure computing
• Strong bias towards automating any process that repeats
• Takes pride in end-to-end digital product ownership from coding to production deployments and support
• Demonstrates mindset of continuous refactoring for codebase
• Key contributor during incident responses and root cause management
• Strong business acumen to ensure effective iteration materializes in achieving intended outcomes
• General understanding of how digital product is delivering value towards applicable business area and only writing software that contributes to that value
• Ability to write technical stories, size appropriately and influence the prioritization in partnership with Digital Product Manager
• Ability to recognized and pivot when sizing assumptions are not validated in development in partnership with Digital Product Manager
• Demonstrates strong empathy towards Human-Centered design thinking
• Designs and builds wholistic solutions reflective of multiple consumer journeys
• Designs, builds, and tests for end-to-end applicability inclusive of integration points across larger ecosystems
• Designs to architectural standards while building iteratively towards target end states
• Applies design principals like SOLID to build flexible and stable applications
• Designs systems with considerations for functional and non-functional needs for example reliability, availability, scalability, etc.
Primary Skills
Primary Skills: Mainframe, Assembler, SAS, JCL, Cobol, DB2
Secondary Skills: VSAM, Easytrieve, CICS
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Experience
6-8 years
Shift Timing
1.00 p.m-9.30 p.m_
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