Cobol Developer

Mandatory Qualifications: 

• Minimum of five (5) years of recent experience developing applications using Cobol for CICS and batch programs.
• Experience working with VSAM files and DB2, integrating existing designs with new requirements.
• Strong experience developing in Mainframe environment resolving complex and conflicting design issues.
• Exceptional presentation and organizational skills.
• High written and oral communication skills.
• Superior proficiency with mainframe applications built with JCL, COBOL, CICS, and DB2.
• Ability to quickly understand complex mainframe systems.
• Ability to analyze business requirements and design applications.
• Modify applications improving the existing business processes.
• Execute cleanups from production data analysis.
• Monitor various system processes as assigned.
• Ensure complete and accurate issue tracking and reporting.
• Escalate production timelines to meet client requests.
• Identify production issues impacting code modules.

Preferred Skills:      

• Experience developing applications in REXX.
• Experience developing applications in the IBM VSE mainframe environment.
• Experience working with stored procedures and SQL in MS SQL 2005 or above.

Tasks & Deliverables:

• Role: Developing applications in a Mainframe environment with integration to distributed environment resolving complex and conflicting design issues
• Objective: To analyze and improve existing business processes with application automation where possible.
• Deliverables: The developer is responsible for the following:
  • Analyze business requirements and design applications.
  • Modify applications improving the existing business processes.
  • Execute cleanups from production data analysis.
  • Monitor various system processes as assigned.
  • Ensure complete and accurate issue tracking and reporting.
  • Escalate production timelines to meet client requests.
  • Identify production issues impacting code modules.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in information technology.