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Job Description :
Director of IT
The primary focus of the Technology Services departments are to provide technical platforms and software tools to facilitate Express Scripts Application development, Operations, and End user departments ability to implement business requirements in an efficient, timely and cost effective manner.
The main responsibilities of the Director of Online Services is to manage the overall health of the CICS and DB2 environment, to provide both CICS/DB2 Infra-Structure and Application design expertise and guidance, to manage the installation, implementation and debugging of all IBM and OEM products. At Express Scripts we have a diverse computing environment. Candidates for this position must be very flexible and responsive to the changing environments.
The primary focus of the Technology Services departments are to provide technical platforms and software tools to facilitate Express Scripts Application development, Operations, and End user departments ability to implement business requirements in an efficient, timely and cost effective manner.
The main responsibilities of the Director of Online Services is to manage the overall health of the CICS and DB2 environment, to provide both CICS/DB2 Infra-Structure and Application design expertise and guidance, to manage the installation, implementation and debugging of all IBM and OEM products. At Express Scripts we have a diverse computing environment. Candidates for this position must be very flexible and responsive to the changing environments.
Qualifications :
Ensure the Reliability of the CICS/DB2 regions in all environments
Production.
- Perform system problem determination and diagnosis
- Have Remedy tickets opened to application groups for problem resolution.
- Perform System dump analysis.
- Perform System monitoring
- Make tuning recommendations
- Support Disaster Recovery Preparation
- Monitor CICS/DB2 Hotline
- Provide 24 / 7 On call support
Quality Assurance / Development Support:
- Define resources – transactions / programs / templates / files – to regions.
- Monitor CICS/DB2 hotline
- Create new CICS regions/DB2 subsystems as needed.
- Review production MEDM entries
Maintain an optimal CICS/DB2 technology environment
Ensure that the CICS/DB2 technology environment is optimized, measured, maintained, and enhanced in a manner that minimizes development and technology resources while providing the stated response times, batch turnaround, and availability.
• Ensure that plans exist to keep all CICS/DB2 and related OEM software at the current maintenance level with an objective of less than 1 production failure per year. Currency is defined as 6-8 months after general availability. Production failure is defined as an outage to a core business element within the first week after implementation.
• Manage the installation and maintenance of the CICS/DB2 OEM products for currency
• Keep abreast of current hardware/software technology and implement where appropriate.
• Ensure that all new features/functions of new software are well documented and communicated.
• Identify methods to optimize the applications and reduce the CPU.DISK, and I/O requirements of the business applications.
• Meet defined service levels for response time, availability, and turnaround times.
• Develop and maintain a long term strategy to exploit technology advancements.
Efficiently manage the CICS/DB2 staff
Efficiently allocate staff resources to optimize productivity,
Promote/maintain a supportive and open atmosphere that encourages/builds a productive, conscientious and dedicated team.
Ensure the Reliability of the CICS/DB2 regions in all environments
Production.
- Perform system problem determination and diagnosis
- Have Remedy tickets opened to application groups for problem resolution.
- Perform System dump analysis.
- Perform System monitoring
- Make tuning recommendations
- Support Disaster Recovery Preparation
- Monitor CICS/DB2 Hotline
- Provide 24 / 7 On call support
Quality Assurance / Development Support:
- Define resources – transactions / programs / templates / files – to regions.
- Monitor CICS/DB2 hotline
- Create new CICS regions/DB2 subsystems as needed.
- Review production MEDM entries
Maintain an optimal CICS/DB2 technology environment
Ensure that the CICS/DB2 technology environment is optimized, measured, maintained, and enhanced in a manner that minimizes development and technology resources while providing the stated response times, batch turnaround, and availability.
• Ensure that plans exist to keep all CICS/DB2 and related OEM software at the current maintenance level with an objective of less than 1 production failure per year. Currency is defined as 6-8 months after general availability. Production failure is defined as an outage to a core business element within the first week after implementation.
• Manage the installation and maintenance of the CICS/DB2 OEM products for currency
• Keep abreast of current hardware/software technology and implement where appropriate.
• Ensure that all new features/functions of new software are well documented and communicated.
• Identify methods to optimize the applications and reduce the CPU.DISK, and I/O requirements of the business applications.
• Meet defined service levels for response time, availability, and turnaround times.
• Develop and maintain a long term strategy to exploit technology advancements.
Efficiently manage the CICS/DB2 staff
Efficiently allocate staff resources to optimize productivity,
Promote/maintain a supportive and open atmosphere that encourages/builds a productive, conscientious and dedicated team.
Carry out supervisory responsibilities associated with managing staff of 8 people:
• All staff members have documented objectives
• Allocate project work and other responsibilities
• All staff members receive written mid-year and annual performance reviews
• Provide coaching and feedback to staff members
• Schedule education and training as appropriate
• Ensure that each department has adequate staffing and successor ship
• All staff members have documented objectives
• Allocate project work and other responsibilities
• All staff members receive written mid-year and annual performance reviews
• Provide coaching and feedback to staff members
• Schedule education and training as appropriate
• Ensure that each department has adequate staffing and successor ship
Education Required : Bachelor
Qualifications:
• Requirement of 10 years of CICS/DB2 application design, Systems Programming and Internals background.
• "Master-level" Knowledge and understanding of both IBM and OEM products and how they interact.
• This position requires someone who is results-orientated
• Ability to develop technical solutions to a defined business need.
• Illustrated ability manage projects with end users and across technical teams in a high paced service oriented environment.
• This position requires someone who can be on beeper coverage to solve technical problems
7x24x365.
Qualifications:
• Requirement of 10 years of CICS/DB2 application design, Systems Programming and Internals background.
• "Master-level" Knowledge and understanding of both IBM and OEM products and how they interact.
• This position requires someone who is results-orientated
• Ability to develop technical solutions to a defined business need.
• Illustrated ability manage projects with end users and across technical teams in a high paced service oriented environment.
• This position requires someone who can be on beeper coverage to solve technical problems
7x24x365.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
Ann Bergquist
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Subject: hello from Mike @ JHeart
From: "michael@jheartusa.com" <michael@jheartusa.com>
To: Ann Bergquist <annber55@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 1:53 PM
Subject: hello from Mike @ JHeart
Ann,
Can you post this position..IT Dir
Location, North Jersey
Salary, open
Thanks,
Mike
We also have a PM position for the same location..If you know anybody...
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