As/400 Mainframe System Analyst (Contract Position)

To help support our continued growth, Mariner Innovations is recruiting for an AS/400 Mainframe Support Analyst (term opportunity). In this role, you will play a key role in preventing and resolving production disruptions, manage risk, improve support effectiveness and continually improve technical processes. You will foster and maintain close working relationships with various client stakeholders to analyze and support business application requirements. You will be a key member of our IT Professional Services team and, in collaboration with our delivery and sales teams, you will deliver best of breed solutions to new and existing customers.

Responsibilities

• Manage and Resolve production incidents raised by Application users
• Actively monitor application incident queues and liaise with assigned analyst on incident status to ensure there is progress in incident resolution
• Manage technical upgrades - plan, coordinate with interfacing teams, review test plans and deployment plans
• Carry out routine system checks to proactively catch any potential issues.
• Act as a technical trouble-shooter across the Finance IT application portfolio to ensure accurate and timely resolution of incidents

Qualifications

• Experience in a multi-technology environment in production support
• Strong communication and Interpersonal skills in order to provide status updates to business and IT management
• Debugging skills including application related problems on AS400
• Experience with data sourcing, ETL and data integration
• Ability to analyze, troubleshoot and resolve production incidents
• Experience with development and testing using technologies like RPG, UNIX scripts, Oracle, SQL Server
• 5+ years' IT industry experience with AS400, Mainframe

Nice-To-Have Skills

• Financial industry experience
• ITS process awareness (ITIL)
• Familiarity with Agile, Kanban methodology and Continuous Improvement
• Experience with code versioning tools like BitBucket and DevOps pipeline
• Familiarity with Unix and Linux platforms

Why Mariner Partners?

We believe in making a positive impact in the communities where we live and work – our team is located in major cities all across Canada, throughout the US and internationally. We are proud to be headquartered here and are passionate about growing a strong technology sector here in Atlantic Canada and beyond. We offer competitive compensation, benefits packages and training and development.

We recognize that empowered employees are more innovative, more efficient, deliver better customer service and can flat out-perform conventional organizations. Our people have built products for national deployments at the world's largest TV and Internet companies and leading real estate, financial and government organizations.

We are looking for passionate IT professionals who are curious about data, who love solving problems for customers and who want to grow their careers.

We Offer

• Flexible hours of work and remote/work from home option
• Comprehensive health, dental, life and disability insurance plans
• Unlimited training
• Competitive salary and bonus plan: stock options
• Paid vacation plus an extra week of paid Mariner MyLife days, and
• Values-driven workplace where people really matter

Join our growing team!