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JOB REQUIREMENTS: At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and
growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive
difference. What\'s the role? Northwestern Mutual is a leading Life
Insurance, Financial Planning, and Investment company where we believe
in putting people first. As a mutual company, we don\'t have
shareholders, so instead of reporting to Wall Street, we report to our
policy owners. NW has earned the highest financial strength ratings
awarded to life insurers from all four major rating agencies. We are
looking for a subject matter expert (SME) of Mainframe CICS / MQ who
would look after the critical infrastructure that underpins Northwestern
Mutual where 85% of the business runs through. This is a hands-on role
where you\'ll configure and maintain products and services according to
standards and policies. As a CICS System Administrator you must have
experience in installation, configuration, maintenance, and monitoring
of CICS regions, MQ products and related ISV products, with z/OS Connect
and TableBase being a plus. The SME for this team is required to work on
critical systems and strategic projects associated across all business
divisions, as well as technology and process service improvements.
Self-starting and motivate, works under little supervision Ability to
self-manage multiple projects Network with employees, vendors, and
outside organizations to help find solutions or opportunities for
improvement Regular communications with their peers; Shares information
with the awareness of its effect on others; Demonstrate a balance of
speaking and listening so that neither is overly dominant Create
technical documents; Review, edit and offer suggestions to others with
appropriate oral and written communications. Concise and diplomatic
Understand waterfall and/or Agile processes Bring your best! What this
role needs: Demonstrate a thorough working knowledge of the mainframe
platform (software / hardware) for CICS and MQ Understand & perform
typical system programmer (SYSPROG) tasks such as: the upgrade &
maintenance process, SMP/e, HOLDDATA, early code, target
zones/libraries, system libraries, terse files, end or marketing (EOM)
and end of life (EOL), review implementation procedures and make
recommendations to ensure a smooth product release and system upgrades.
Understand vendor communication protocols/forms when issues arise: PMR,
PTF, Hyper fixes, APAR Basic understanding of MVS: z/15, CPUs, SYSPLEX,
LPAR, coupling facility, zIIPs, general purpose machines, WLM, DVIPA,
JCL, PDS, ISPF, SMF, IFCIDs, RMF/CMF Basic understanding of storage:
SMS, ACS routine, storage pools, vendors (IBM, Hitachi, etc.)
Understanding of security: certificates/key rings, RACF, pervasive
encryption Work with management to resolve middleware risks that has
been identified by compliance, internal and external auditors.
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minorities, and special disabled veterans and other veterans are
encouraged to apply.