The Financial Information Services Agency and the Office of Payroll Administration (FISA-OPA) has a vacancy for a Configuration Management Technician. This role is responsible for ensuring that all mainframe migrations are implemented in the appropriate environments and in accordance with agency procedures.
The primary systems supported are PMS and PPMS, the City's payroll and pension payroll applications. Using the ClearQuest change management software package as a guide for determining priorities, and the version control product ClearCase, it is the responsibility of the CM technician to identify potential discrepancies between what has been specified in the CQ document and the version control software in ClearCase.
Key responsibilities include: Ensuring Application teams have thoroughly documented migration requests in ClearQuest to maintain audit compliance and process integrity; deploying mainframe software (IMS PSB/MFS, DB2, JCL,and COBOL programs) to various testing environments; performing post-production migrations to backfill test environments with the latest versions of code and related objects; coordinating complex migrations with Applications, Testing and DBA teams; providing the Technical Support team with all required migration components and detailed execution instructions, including GDGs and scheduling changes.
Additional duties include, assisting Systems teams with tool upgrades and granting Rational access to FISA staff; as well as participating in supporting Disaster Recovery tasks and documenting any issues that arise; providing secondary application support while maintaining primary responsibility for configuration management and mainframe migrations; assisting with production support activities by coordinating with application, operations, and technical support teams; supporting batch processing and file transfer workflows related to payroll and PeopleSoft-based systems as needed.
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional Information P-306 The City of New York offers a comprehensive set of benefits and programs to employees, including health insurance, pension plan, Deferred Compensation Plan (with 457, 401K and Roth IRA options), pre-tax Commuter Benefit program, pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts programs and more.
Additional benefits such as prescription drug coverage, dental benefits, vision care benefits and more are also available through District Council 37 – Local 2627, the union that represents employees in this title.
To Apply Applicants may visit the Jobs NYC website: www.nyc.gov/jobs and apply to Job ID:
Hours/Shift 35 hours Weekly/Day.
Work Location 5 Manhattan West, NY, NY Position is located in NYC near Madison Square Garden and Hudson Yards
New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.