Cobol Developer

Hello there ,

We are currently seeking a skilled Cobol Developer to join our team in Pittsburgh. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Cobol programming and experience working with hybrid environments. This position requires 3 days per week in the office.

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Employment Type: Full-time ,W2 only

Work Schedule: 3 days in office

IT - Software Engineer - Contractor
Hybrid in Pittsburgh 3 days in office
flexible start time between 6-8am EST 8 hr work day (start time may need to be earlier on the front end of the assignment to ensure knowledge transfer with current FTE who starts early)
M-F 40 hours

Intended length of assignment is 1/31/2025 with a possibility of extension/contract to hire
This position is contract with the right to hire if a need becomes available. Manager will only look at candidates that are open to converting to a full time PNC employee. PNC will not sponsor work visas if the decision is made to hire the contingent worker.
OT: Potentially but rare
No travel necessary for this role
Reason for opening is replacement
Which project will this need be supporting?
CTR Enhancements Project(P-210701)

Organizational Structure And Impact:
Impact this role has within the bank/LOB: mitigating risk
Function the group supports from an LOB perspective: Supports currency transaction report function with the line of business

Team Background and Preferred Candidate History:
Industry background the team is comprised: Mostly technology
Candidate preferred industry background: technology background required, banking is a nice to have

Candidate Technical and skills profile:
Key responsibilities:
maintaining mainframe programs and ensuring execution of those programs on a daily basis

Must have technical skills/experience (ask for alternative/tool/version):
COBOL Experience - Batch and Online (Programs and CICS Screens)
Experience with mainframe tools - JCL / Proc / CICS / CA7
Knowledge of VSAM and tools to access VSAM files
Knowledge of DB2 and tools to access (i.e. SPUFI)
Some knowledge of ETL (Informatica) and Toad/SQL
Use of Informatica tools(Workflow Manager, Monitor, Designer)
Some knowledge of EDW and Teradata/SQL
Endevor (Source Management Tool) experience

Flex Skills:
Knowledge of Systemware (report storage)
Knowledge/use of ServiceNow
Use of Artifactory and UDeploy
Familiarity with Currency Transaction Reporting and Actimize CTR application
Experience with other programming languages and messaging technologies (Python, Java, Apache NiFi, Kafka, etc)

Soft skills that would make a candidate successful in this role:
Strong problem solving, analytical, and engineering skills - ability to work independently as well as with a team, good communication both written and verbal, self-motivated, willingness to ask questions

Bachelor's degree required preferably in a technology field

Years of experience: Level 2 3-5 years

Screening Questions:
In the COBOL read and write commands, what do you read from and what do you write from?
How many jobs can a PROC be used in?
In a proc, what command is used to check return codes and affect the running of the proc?

Role Differentiator:
What is different about this specific role compared to other hiring with the same skill set?
opportunity for growth, diverse and strong team, good culture, critical function for the bank - high visibility, core function bank is dependent on - stability in this role - strong support team that the team works with consistently

Logistics:
2 step interview with HM and possibility some tech leads - first round Director second