COBOL Developer
Skills: Expertise in Mainframe COBOL, JCL, and DB2; strong technical analysis, automation, security compliance, testing, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and maintain Mainframe COBOL & JCL to meet support and/or project requirements
- Partner with Agency stakeholder teams across business units to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with production, managerial, and executive teams
- Adhere to security and control, Sarbanes-Oxley, and change control processes
- Interface with business and IT teams to understand business requirements and translate business requirements into formal technical requirements and application code
- Together with application users, identity the possibility of the automation of existing manual processes through the data integration of mainframe and external (non-mainframe) systems.
- Work with IT support teams (EIA, DA/DBA, server teams) to ensure support and project requirements are developed and successfully implemented
- Develop and execute unit test and integration plans/scripts to validate that application changes meet technical specifications
- Responsible for full System Development Life Cycle
- Work with business team to complete acceptance testing and participate in integration testing
- Participate in technical reviews at appropriate stages of development
Minimum Qualifications:
- 12 years of overall IT experience with at least 10 years of experience in supporting a mainframe environment
- 6 years of mainframe Development background in design, analysis, and coding: CUBOL, VSAM files, TSO/ISPF, JCL, CICS, and DB2
- Quick starter to troubleshoot/resolve incidents and business support items
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for working in a global environment
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to Prioritize Business Impact and Urgency
- Perform application support tasks like systems support, security reviews, & maintenance tasks
- Testing experience
- Ability to learn new technologies and methodologies quickly.
Educational Requirement: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field