Technical Team Lead

DPP is seeking a Technical Team Lead for an opportunity with our client in the healthcare insurance industry.
 
Work Location: Onsite in Columbia, SC (highly preferred), State College, PA, or Dallas, TX; open to fully remote candidates nationwide.
Duration: 11 months
Terms: W2 Contract
Work Authorization: US Citizen; must hold a current/active low-level (Public Trust) clearance
 
About the Team:

• Operations – 3 people directly on this team, with a whole team of 26.
• Dependable, technically strong, collaborative team focused on keeping daily operations running while working to improve and modernize our environments.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordinating a team of technical specialists through all assigned work requests.
• Review and distribute all approved work requests based on staff availability and skill, ensuring all needed resources are obtained.
• Monitor progress and performance and troubleshoot any problems that may arise.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Strong analytical skills.
• Working knowledge of system analysis concepts.
• Working knowledge of the application and business functions.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Basic knowledge of development and production environments, database systems and utilities, applicable programming languages and system components.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing business, client and project needs.
• Ability to balance workload for several work requests simultaneously.
• Basic understanding of resource planning and organizational impacts.
• Working knowledge of requirements gathering concepts.

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree – Any Major;
• OR 4 years of job-related work experience;
• OR 2 years of job-related experience plus an associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job-related degree.

Required Work Experience:

• 5 years’ Information systems experience.

Required Technologies:

• Hands-on experience with z/OS, CICS (strong preference with CICSPlex), VSAM, and SMP/E.
• COBOL, JCL, REXX, and Assembler.
• Monitoring/performance tools (such as BMC or IBM Performance Analyzer).

Interested? Learn more:
Click the apply button to learn more about this position (#26-01251).