Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
Sr Payroll Integration System Developer
Summary:
• Analyze and document mainframe and payroll migrations procedures.
• Author functional specifications; review functional specifications with business owners for approval; review functional specifications with technical staff during transition to technical design and coding phases of the project.
• Work with technical job admins and support personnel to research problems to find and implement solutions.
• Software migrations into all required environments according to current agency migration procedures and standards in a timely manner. The migration steps include planning, review, execution, and quality assurance activities. Components to be migrated involve source code, object code, load modules, DBRMs, and copybooks. Actions performed upon migration are compiled, linked, and bound respective to each of the environments.
• Perform migration steps according to current agency procedures and standards and according to established schedules and plans. The Configuration Management staff provides the overall setup and migration of all RM component software changes into staging libraries. Processes include staging JCL, PROC, and Control Card coding changes, assigning tasks to tech Support, and communicating the task requirements to the responsible departments.
• Maintain Production procedures to set up JCL and communicate with Tech Support via e-mail. Add all new programs to Golden copies in all test environments.
• Support prod migrations for changes to JCL and Procs. Reply to the e-mail if you migrated the change on the e-mail report. List the RM number associated with the migration.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Experience compiling, linking and binding COBOL programs.
• Experience with Rational ClearQuest and ClearCase.
• Experience using TSO/ISPF.
• Proficiency with JCL.
• Strong understanding of standard system development life cycle methodologies.
• Familiarity with MS-Word and Excel.
• Knowledge of DB2, IMS DB/DC.
• Experience with PeopleSoft is a plus.
• Experience with UNIX is a plus.
• Experience working in Configuration Management with mainframe or midrange computer.
EDUCATION:
- Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or in a Technical/Business Discipline is required.
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Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technical/business discipline
- Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills
- Experience compiling, linking, and binding COBOL programs
- Experience with Rational ClearQuest and ClearCase
- Experience using TSO/ISPF
- Proficiency with JCL
- Strong understanding of standard system development life cycle methodologies
- Familiarity with Microsoft Word and Excel
- Knowledge of DB2 and IMS DB/DC
- Experience with PeopleSoft
- Experience with UNIX
- Experience working in configuration management with mainframe or midrange computers
Orion Innovation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Orion Innovation and has not been reviewed or approved by Orion Innovation.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Orion highlights health and well-being initiatives such as fitness, mindfulness, and flexibility/remote options, reinforced by recognition like Cigna’s Healthy Workforce Designation. Flexibility via hybrid/remote work is positioned as a consistent part of the overall rewards experience.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as moderately satisfactory overall, with pockets where compensation is viewed as fair, particularly for some software engineering and certain U.S. roles. Public snapshots also indicate that competitiveness can be stronger in specific markets and functions.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Performance-linked outcomes are implied through mentions that hikes can be good when performance is demonstrated. Learning and development programs are also emphasized as part of the broader value proposition tied to career growth.
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What We Do
Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale. Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise. Our business has more than tripled over the last three years. We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
