Cobol Developer

Position(s) Required: Cobol Developer
Hybrid
Interview: WEBEX
Designated Work Location: 40 North Pearl, Albany NY
Anticipated Duration of the Engagement: 14 months

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Level III- More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects.
• 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Developer
• More than Seven (7) years of experience working directly with COBOL 74 and/or 85 programming on mainframes.
• Five or more years of experience with system analysis and design, programming and unit and integrated testing on mainframes

Desirable Qualifications:

• Seven or more years of experience with Cobol routines, procedures, TIP screens, ECL, batch jobs.
• Five or more years of experience monitoring production work and performing error diagnostic/debugging activities in a mainframe environment
• Experience creating and maintaining documentation related to designing, programming, performing code walk-throughs and testing in a mainframe environment
• Experience in reviewing, translating and extracting business rules and process logic from COBOL code in a mainframe
• environment
• Five or more years of experience with RDMS and DMS database structures, data dictionaries and source code
• Five or more years of experience working in information technology within a government setting.
• Five or more years of experience supporting Child Support Management System.

Duties/Responsibilities:
Daily activities as a Cobol Programmer will include, but are not limited to:
Review production systems to understand major technical components and relate them to business areas;
Use Cobol to analyze routines, procedures, TIP screens, ECL, batch jobs and FTPs which make up discrete parts of the systems;
Analyze DMS and RDMS database structures, data dictionaries and source code for discrepancies or inaccuracies;
Document system specifications and solutions to facilitate knowledge transfer;
Monitor and perform diagnostic/debugging activities on the mainframe;
Coordinate project activities among other team members, users, and/or requestors;
Act in advocacy role as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in all relevant phases of the IES Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC);
Work closely with Architects and others on the applications development team to refine solution design;
Report status of current tasks and outstanding issues to supervisor and project leads;