Company Profile

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

As a global financial services firm, Morgan Stanley is committed to technological innovation. We rely on our technologists around the world to create leading-edge, secure platforms for all our businesses.

Department Overview

Enterprise Technology & Services (ETS) delivers shared technology services for Morgan Stanley supporting all business applications and end users. ETS provides capabilities for all stages of Morgan Stanley’s software development lifecycle, enabling productive coding, functional and integration testing, application releases, and ongoing monitoring and support for over 3,000 production applications. ETS also delivers all workplace technologies (desktop, mobile, voice, video, productivity, intranet/internet) in integrated configurations that boost the personal productivity of employees. Application and end user functions are delivered on a scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure composed of seamlessly integrated datacenter, network, compute, cloud, storage, and database functions.

Our Team

Mainframe Computing (MC) is a technology enabler for the business by providing a strong, resilient, and stable platform to host and enable business innovation/growth in our lines of business and global locations. MC consists of experienced administration, operations and engineering staff required to support the platform. In addition to flexible hours, the Firm enables its staff to work remotely. The mainframe engineers work with the latest hardware and software technologies. The IBM z platform and the mainframe disk and tape technologies are frequently refreshed across our datacenters.

Mainframe CICS Engineer

The Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer is responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance, and CICS related operation functions. The candidate must be comfortable working with CICS in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex and CICSPlex environment and must be able to interface with application developers and operations teams. The CICS engineer should have strong analytical, organizational and communication skills, as well as in-depth knowledge in CICS performance & tuning, debugging and dump analysis. On-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the CICS environment and to resolve issues.

Skills Required:

• 5+Yrs of experience.
• Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrades and maintenance
• Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.
• Knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics necessary to tune CICS regions.
• Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.
• Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions, including those that pertain to CICS region performance.
• Experienced with the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS.
• Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning.
• Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers.
• Experience with Mainframe WebSphere MQ
• Good oral/written communication skills
  

Skills desired:

• Assembler, COBOL and REXX coding and knowledge of CICS Exits
• Web application support in a CICS TS V5.x and/or V6.x environment
• Understanding of zOS facilities such as: APF, Link list, VSAM, LPA, RLS, Coupling Facility
• Utilization of CICS Configuration Manager
• Working knowledge of zOS & CICS Explorer
• Understanding of CICS REST Services
• Prior Application programming experience a plus.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.