DESCRIPTION: Accenture Technology Solutions is the place for someone looking for a challenging IT career and access to the kind of training, expertise and development tools that only a large company can offer. Our international reach also means you could have the opportunity to be part of a truly global organization of smart, technically-minded people and work with dynamic clients in countries all over the world.

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Job Description

Host / Server Platform professionals design, develop and deploy platform, or operating-system-based solutions, for host servers - the computers that house (or "host") systems, applications or services accessed by individuals working from remote, or "client," computers.

Mainframe professionals design, develop and deploy host/server platform solutions for mainframe computers - computers typically used by large organizations for large-scale, centralized processing functions.

An Analyst Programmer/Senior Software Engineer contributes to the development, delivery and maintenance of technology-based business solutions. He/she is skilled in designing, coding, testing, and implementing configuration changes to software applications to meet both functional and technical requirements. He/she may have some oversight responsibility for the technology solution and may assist in the development of the team.

Key responsibilities may include:
• Contributing to the planning and analyzing of high-level software strategies and solutions through functional and technical expertise
• Designing and implementing analyses that will identify requirements related to people, processes and technology
• Implementing or leading the implementation of the technical infrastructure, including networks, platforms and servers, enterprise enabling, application enabling, security and operations management
• Integrating technical and application components to meet business requirements
• Participating in designing the framework of a technical infrastructure, including network, platforms and servers, enterprise enabling, application enabling, security and operations management
• Designing, coding and testing program modules that meet design specifications
• Maintaining, tuning and repairing applications in order to keep them performing according to technical and functional specifications; performing preventive maintenance activities; providing user support
• Creating, executing and documenting the tests necessary to ensure that an application or technical environment meets performance requirements (technical, functional and user interface)
• Participating in identifying configuration changes to applications so that they meet business process requirements
• Participating in implementing all actions required to deploy an application; assisting in ensuring that the application meets both technical and business needs
• Defining the characteristics, capabilities, inputs, outputs, and results necessary to describe the required functionality of a system, software application, network, training course, user interface or any other technology or product
• Assisting in identifying, analyzing, mitigating and responding to project and operational risks

Software/ Language: Cobol, Smart/Cobol

Platform: AS/400

Database: DB2, DB/400

Core Skill: Cobol, Smart/Cobol

Biz Skill Requirement: Insurance Preferred

Professional Skill Requirements

• Ability to contribute to a high-performing, motivated workgroup by applying interpersonal and collaboration skills to achieve project goals and realize value

• Ability to contribute to the creation of an environment that facilitates high performance and motivates individuals to work collaboratively as a team

• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

• Desire to work in an information systems environment

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Flexibility

• Good time management skills

• Basic project management skills