On-site Lead Mainframe Developer for Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) - Payments

● Adept with developing and delivering key IT projects related to Pershing’s order and trade management systems in collaboration with colleagues in a cross-functional environment. Maintained an in-depth knowledge of Credit risk and order management systems and IBM mainframe technologies, with hands-on experience in COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, CICS, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, SyncSort, among others. Some of my main responsibilities in this role included the following:● Worked with the team including… Show more ● Adept with developing and delivering key IT projects related to Pershing’s order and trade management systems in collaboration with colleagues in a cross-functional environment. Maintained an in-depth knowledge of Credit risk and order management systems and IBM mainframe technologies, with hands-on experience in COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, CICS, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, SyncSort, among others. Some of my main responsibilities in this role included the following:● Worked with the team including analysts, developers and designers to review and understand business requirements, defining design specifications and modification plans to provide best possible solutions to satisfy the customer needs● Provided root cause analysis for the production issues and incidents● Developed and maintained high quality code consistent with standards and technology direction, ensuring defect free programming by rigorous testing and debugging using available tools. Provided code and testing reviews● Regular interactions with the Business Analysts, technical and non-technical stakeholders to gain a better understanding of the Business Process, requirements and provide clear and detailed insight on the issues● Supported Disaster recovery tests, Performance stress tests for the application.● Transaction performance monitoring for the application transactions, analysing delays, contention, lock issues etc.● Provided team leadership and workflow oversight to ensure all project tasks were completed within quality assurance and best practice standards.● Carried out all aspects of project delivery from strategic design through to implementation and end-user testing using Agile and waterfall methodologies.● Promoted a culture of continuous improvement within the IT Team to drive efficiency and productivity. Show less