AS/400 Sr. Systems Administrator

Express is the preferred young, sexy, and sophisticated designer brand for work and casual wear among fashion-forward young women and men. We have more than 20,000 associates, operate more than 620 retail outlets in the United States and generate $1.8 billion in sales annually. As a privately-held, freestanding business with offices in Columbus, Ohio and New York City, Express is one of the ten largest specialty retail brands in the country.

▪ The System Administrator will provide daily planning, scheduling, and production support within the AS/400 Support environment
▪ Responsible for all phases of project life-cycle including documentation
▪ Monitor and review solutions to ensure that business requirements are met in a timely manner
▪ Communicate status of capacity, performance and monitoring to business partners as required
▪ Provide all AS/400 Support functions, change management, SOP assurance, and business risk mitigation in a fast paced production environment
▪ Deliver effective and timely completion of all assigned responsibilities including preparation and monitoring of budgets, resource allocations, team members' individual development plans, objectives, and performance reviews
▪ Maintain a strong knowledge base of industry and technology trends as they apply to their area of responsibility
▪ Recommend improvements to our strategy and architecture based upon application of these trends.
▪ Provide technical leadership and recommendations to their team members and corresponding business users for all IT Governance
▪ The ability to converse with customers to achieve a win/win scenario during tenuous encounters
▪ Demonstrated experience collaborating and succeeding on a cross-functional team to enhance the business continuity
▪ Detailed experience Installing, configuring, maintaining and upgrading of iSeries (OS/400) operating system(s) on multiple machines.
▪ Experience problem solving in an operations environments
▪ Superior interpersonal communication skills, strong teamwork and leadership abilities.
▪ Well-organized with a proven project management background.
▪ Experience anticipating potential issues, troubleshoot, research, issues and problems associated with AS/400 performance, capacity, tuning, etc.
▪ Experience planning and executing Disaster Recovery, Maintenance, and testing of iSeries platforms in off-site DR Tests
▪ Retail AS/400 experience preferred


▪ Proficient on AS/400 platform, including RPG and CL Programming languages.
5-7 yrs iSeries (AS/400) TCP/IP Networking experience
▪ 5 yrs experience support and tuning Oracle Databases in an OpenSystems/AS/400 environment
▪ Reporting tools with dashboard and drill down capabilities
▪ Java knowledge for interface purposes
▪ Good working knowledge of industry leveraged AS/400 Monitoring and System Performance Tools
▪ 5-7 yrs MIMIX replication experience in a High-Availability environment
▪ Ability to analyze and define business, user and technical requirements
▪ 5+ years of Systems & Programming or related experience with strong practical knowledge of modern technologies including RPG ILE and SQL.
▪ Experience with ROBOT Scheduler or similar production tools
▪ Experience/Working knowledge with OS/400, CL, or RPG400
▪ Supervisory/Team Leader experience driving technical solutions in an AS/400 environment
▪ Broad knowledge of AS/400 application development background (AS/400, S/38, S/36, RPG, RPGIV, RPG ILE, RPG400, CL programming, Client Access) TCP/IP Networking, SDLC
▪ Extensive Performance Navigator Expertise
▪ Experience using IBM HMC to manage multiple LPAR’s
▪ Experience with IP (Island Pacific) preferred
▪ Retail IT experience preferred



An equal opportunity employer, Express, LLC does not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual's race, color, religion, gender, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. Express, LLC only hires individuals authorized for employment in the United States.
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