Sr. Technical Analyst, IMS System Program
City : TORONTO, Ontario, Canada
Category : Technology | Analytics | Research
Industry : Financial/Banking
Employer : RBC
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Primary Responsibilities:
- Install & support multiple IMSplex configurations, including IMS Connect regions, supporting WAS & MQ transaction inputs, Omegamon/IMS monitoring and Db2 back-ends, across 2 development LPARs, 5 testing lpars & 9 production LPARs, running numerous applications, all with high availability production requirements.
- Identify opportunities for tuning IMS performance to ensure SLA requirements are maintained or exceeded.
- Ensure all IMS regions are completely secure from any unauthorized access or usage thru IMS’s usage of RACF security. Ensure the verifications of all IMS security parameters upon the start of the IMS control region, escalating any found IMS security parm changes for analysis and conversion back to documented settings.
- Produce clear technical documentation and conform to any audit requirements.
- Ensure that IMS software and RBC written code maintained by the incumbent and his/her team are maintained at appropriate levels to ensure RBCFG remains on the leading edge of technology. The expectation is that IMS will be maintained at a current or current minus one generation level, depending upon the value the new release delivers.
- Ensure that IMS software and RBC written code maintained by the incumbent and his/her team are maintained at appropriate SMP/E maintenance levels to ensure RBCFG minimizes exposure to known risks. The expectation is that vendor software will have its maintenance fully upgraded twice per year. Vendor hiper lists are to be reviewed monthly for important RBC impacting hiper fixes, to be scheduled for installation.
- Ensure that changes to IMS software and RBC written code maintained by the incumbent and his/her team are documented in the RBC change management system and emergency changes destined for the production systems are within the organizational standards.
- Ensure that problems with IMS software and RBC written code maintained by the incumbent and his/her team are isolated and resolved in a timely manner such that impact is kept to an absolute minimum.
- Identify and make recommendations on exploitation of new IMS & z/OS features and/or functions, such as z/OS Connect EE API processing, and RBC written code to ensure proper use of technology while adhering to RBC’s long-term architectural direction.
- Maintain an understanding of evolving IMS technology as well as interfacing technologies, such as Db2, MQ & WAS, supported by other areas of RBC.
- Provide expert technical advice to operations staff in GCC and NCC and application developers as required to assist in resolution of their problems.
- Provide key consulting services to application development initiatives when requested.
- Share experiences and knowledge with all members of the team through open communications. Provide learning and training opportunities for junior team members.
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