The Company
At Utica National Insurance Group, over 1,300 employees countrywide take our corporate promise to heart every day: To make people feel secure, appreciated, and respected.
While we had humble beginnings in 1914, today the Utica National Insurance Group is an “A” rated $1.4B award-winning, nationally recognized organization providing personal and commercial property & casualty insurance products and services.
Our Missionis to continually meet the needs of our policyholders, agent/customers and employees resulting in sustainable profitable growth in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
We are proud to sell our products through more than 2,200 independent insurance agents around the country as we have been since 1928. These agents provide their clients with valuable insight and resources. And, as the second-largest insurer ofAgents’ Errors and Omissions(E&O) business in the United States, we insure many of the agents who work with our policyholders.
Our purposeis to make people feel secure, appreciated, and respected. These Values define the character of our employees. They personify Utica National – describing what it means to “be Utica National” and how we approach doing business. Together, with our agents, we are committed to providing our mutual policyholders with valuable services and products to help them feel secure.
If you seek a truly outstanding employment experience, Utica National is the place for you. We are always looking for conscientious, customer-oriented people – whether you’re a seasoned insurance professional or just starting out. We offer a supportive and friendly work environment that features a variety of career paths.
We offer challenging assignments, advancement opportunities, full benefits packages, competitive salaries, and a great work environment. We’re big enough to offer the opportunities you need to be successful, but not so big that you’ll get lost in the crowd.
JOB DESCRIPTION:Mainframe Generalist with a primary emphasis on RACF Administration (both day to day user administration and overall system administration). Additional knowledge of software related to all parts of the z/OS systems, including 3rd party (OEM) software, z/OS itself, CICS, IMS, MQ, TCPIP, & storage systems would be beneficial but not required.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Day to Day RACF Administration
- Provisioning new users meeting security and company guidelines
- Deprovisioning users following defined process
- Change Requests
- Adherence to and participation in refinement of mainframe security policies
- RACF Database cleanup and maintenance
- Overall RACF Administration – Eventual growth into overall RACF Administration
- Implement new systems software and modifications without adverse effects on current production or testing.
- Assist with management and monitoring of installed systems and infrastructure
- Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
- Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
- Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
- Prepare material for Systems Analysts, Programmers and Operations personnel that describes effects and new requirements resulting from changes to system software
- Provide 2nd & 3rd level support
- Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
- Provide technical guidance and support to application development staff
- Define and enforce appropriate technical standards & procedures
- Perform other duties as assigned.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:
- IT Standards, Procedures & Policies Knowledge of and ability to utilize a variety of skill sets and technical knowledge to support organizational IT policies, standards and procedures.
- Participate in the implementation of IT standards and procedures in IT projects or services
- Collaborates on development of templates for IT standards and procedures for technical business plans
- Evaluates the effectiveness of IT policies through professional group discussions
- Consults on key issues and challenges of internal and external IT businesses
- Compares and contrasts benefits and risks of internal and external IT services
- Monitors and coordinates preventive and scheduled IT business models
- Application Delivery Process Knowledge of and ability to utilize major tasks, deliverables, and formal application delivery methodologies to deliver new or enhanced applications.
- Performs all major development and delivery phases and activities
- Contrasts the benefits, drawbacks and appropriateness of different methodologies
- Utilizes industry experience and benchmarks to evaluate the effectiveness of methodologies applied during the application delivery process
- IT Project Planning and Organization Knowledge of and ability to utilize a variety of specific tools and techniques for planning, estimating, resourcing and scheduling IT projects
- Optimizes the IT project plan using the critical path method to ensure the completion of the project
- Collaborates with the project administration office to allocate resources in IT project portfolios
- Consults on tracking techniques for project progress; reports project status to optimize the IT project scheduling
- Evaluates the effectiveness of IT project life cycle implementation through professional group discussion
REQUIREMENTS:
- Preferred RACF experience
- Preferred experience supporting IBM mainframe operating system environments
- Demonstrated experience with TSO/ISPF, SDSF and JCL
- Proven experience in administering related software products, including installing maintenance & new releases
- Familiarity with/working knowledge of CICS, DB2 and WebSphere MQ
- Must Have
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Strong customer skills
Salary Range: $85,300-$127,900
The final salary to be paid and position within the internal salary range is reflective of the employee’s work experience, their geographic location, education, certification(s), scope and responsibilities in the role, and additional qualifications.
Benefits:
We believe strongly that talented people are core to our success and are attracted to companies that provide competitive pay, comprehensive benefits packages, career advancement and challenging work opportunities. We offer a Comprehensive Benefits Plan for full time employees that include the following:
- Medical and Prescription Drug Benefit
- Dental Benefit
- Vision Benefit
- Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
- 401(k) Profit Sharing and Investment Plan(Includes annual Company financial contribution and discretionary Profit Sharing contribution based upon annual company financial results)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Tuition Assistance, Training, and Professional Designations
- Company-Paid Family Leave
- Adoption/Surrogacy Assistance Benefit
- Voluntary Benefits – Group Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity, Critical Illness, Legal, ID Theft Protection, Pet Insurance
- Student Loan Refinancing Services
- Care.com Membership with Back-up Care, Senior Solutions
- Business Travel Accident Insurance
- Matching Gifts program
- PaidVolunteer Day
- Employee Referral Award Program
- Wellness programs
Additional Information:
This position is a full time salaried, exempt (non overtime eligible) position.
As part of our hiring process, candidates who have accepted a formal offer will be required to submit to a comprehensive background check and drug screen; additional screening for credit or MVR may be required for some positions
Utica National is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Apply now and find out what it’s like to be a part of an amazing team, thrive in an exciting environment and work for a company you can be proud of. Once you complete your application, you can monitor your status in the hiring process by logging into your profile. A representative from our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch regarding any change in your candidacy.