Role OverviewPenFed is hiring a Manager IT, Core Engineering Applications to oversee a team of programmers and lead delivery and production support for critical batch and transactional workloads. The manager will partner closely with IT leaders on Mule and Salesforce platforms to ensure seamless integrations and drive clear stakeholder communication, planning, and outcome-based reporting.
What You Will Do
Lead, mentor, and manage programmers delivering design, development, implementation, and production support for legacy and modernized solutions. Own reliability, performance, change control, and incident management for mainframe applications, jobs, datasets, and integrations.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, and REXX, and a strong understanding of datasets/file structures, batch scheduling, utilities, and job control. Proven leadership of IT teams delivering complex initiatives and production support for mission critical systems is also required.
Requirements
- Minimum eight (8) years writing/supporting COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve
- Minimum three (3) to five (5) years managing teams as a manager or above
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business, or related field; or equivalent experience
- Extensive hands-on experience with COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, and REXX
- Strong understanding of datasets/file structures (e.g., VSAM, sequential), batch scheduling, utilities, and job control
- Proven leadership of IT teams delivering complex initiatives and production support for mission critical systems
Benefits
- Organizational performance based annual bonus
- Individual performance based annual bonus
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