Individual contributor provides systems operational support, technical skills to monitor, operate and maintain technical infrastructure and tests new methods, software, hardware, data flow and interfaces with existing systems. Supervises and provides technical guidance to the staff in monitoring, operation and administration of technical infrastructure, and testing of new methods, software and hardware.
Duties:
Research, design, develop, and test operating systems-level software, compilers, and network distribution software in a Websphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker runtime environment. Set operational specifications and formulate and analyze software requirements. Provide systems operational support and technical skills to monitor, operate and maintain the technical infrastructure. Set up Queue manager network and a Message Broker Domain. Use WebSphere MQ (5.3, 6.0) WebSphere Message Broker (5.0, 6.x) CICS Support.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Performs a combination of the following duties according to departmental guidelines:
1. Provides technical support to infrastructure engineers/developers to implement the resolution of highly complex, technical problems involving creation of technical infrastructure and its integration into the firm's existing computer systems.
2. Participates in instructing, assigning, directing, and checking the work of the infrastructure engineering staff.
3. Assists in planning, organizing and controlling the activities of the section. Provides input on performance evaluations for staff.
4. Assists in scheduling the development, introduction, communication of scalable, advanced technologies to integrate technical infrastructure with existing systems, enabling the creation of new infrastructure or expansion of existing infrastructure capability.
5. Upgrades and maintains the systems that employ scalable, advanced technologies and methods to integrate technical infrastructure with existing systems, enabling the creation of new infrastructure capability or expanding existing infrastructure.
6. Develops and implements infrastructure to support host-based, client-server, distributed or web-based applications and interfaces to databases.
7. Monitors performance statistics to assist in determining hardware requirements and communication bandwidth to support projected transaction volumes and response time and system availability targets.
8. Tracks the engineering and implementation of the technical infrastructure for business applications, which may be centralized, distributed, client/server or web-based, including interfaces to databases.
9. Stays up to date on trends and developments within functional area of expertise and the insurance industry.
Monday-Friday, 8:30 am to 4:45 pm, $100,940/year; overtime exempt.
Additional Responsibilities
1. Performs other essential duties as assigned.
Education and Experience
1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
2. Five years of experience in position or related field.
3. Will accept Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering and 2 years of experience in position or related field.
Experience must include:
1. IBM WebSphere MQ (5.3, 6.0)
2. WebSphere Message Broker (5.0, 6.x)
3. CICS Support

Listed duties, responsibilities, requirements and functions are not meant to be all inclusive.
Refer to Job # DD-202''


Experience: Computer Science or Engineering background
design, develop and test operating systems software

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