Applications Programmer

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Job Description

One of our financial services hiring managers is looking for SAS Application programmer to join his team in Toronto for a 6-month contract.

What makes this Special

Our client is one of top 5 banks in Canada; our client has a prestigious reputation and excellent work environment. This position offers an opportunity for personal learning and to contribute to important initiatives that make a difference. Our client is actively screening resumes and scheduling interviews to fill this position, so let one our professional resource managers represent you to the client, promote your skills, and help you prepare.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Resource required to join the FATCA project delivery team. Their focus area is on code development of source system extracts and transition to target data model. Development is all mainframe-based. Minimum requirements are 5+ years SAS (this is a must-have), TSO and JCL, working in large data-driven batch environments. Nice to have are 5+ years development in a Cobol and DB/2 environment for MVS platform. 

This candidate's role is also responsible to analyze business requirements, translate to functional code, understand basics of data models and analysis, work in a dynamic, collaborative delivery team model, manage and support unit and integration testing components, and contribute to SDLC artifacts and design documents. This role will be looking at source file manipulation from 10 different sources. 

Qualifications

• 5+ years SAS (must-have) 
• TSO and JCL 
• Worked in a large data-driven batch environments 
• ability to analyze business requirements, translate to function code, understand basics of data models and analysis 

Nice to have

• Cobol 
• DB/2 environment for MVS platform
• FATCA experience 

This individual will be working with a large data-driven batch environments from 10 different source systems and drive out initial extract.
Please note only candidates with SAS, TSO and JCL experience will be shortlisted. 

• Responsible for leading technical aspects of project from inception through to deployment.
• Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions.
• Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology.
• Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles. 
• Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions.
• Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues. Active participation in issue resolution. 
• Provide detailed development estimates to Project Manager for development effort as well as weekly status reporting and budget forecasting. 
• Configuration management for the sub projects within the release. 
• Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance and production environments. 
• Work closely with System Test Environment Management Team (STEMT) to ensure that environments are fully functional and that builds are properly deployed. 
• Participate in development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code). 
• Provide technical support to business and testing team during testing phases. Track defects, defect triage and resolution. 
• Data set up and environment shake down. 
• Knowledge transfer within group. 
• Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge transfer has occurred to full time staff upon completion of contract term.

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