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Title: Natural ADABAS Software Developer
Duration: 2 Years
Location: Austin Texas 78701.
Interview: Must be able to participate in an in-person interview at the primary headquarters of TDI (1601 Congress Ave, Austin, TX).
Summary:
One software developer is being solicited by theclient to perform work on legacy modernization projects in a natural ADABAS application to serve the business needs of the Division of Workers Compensation (DWC). Emphasis of work performed shall be on application and data migration efforts. The work will include, but is not limited to, assessing user requirements/stories and translating them into technical tasks and actual script development to identify data elements in a natural ADABAS application, establish new table structure in Oracle 19c, write scripts to move the data to the new tables, and supporting, patching and upgrading Natural programming language, ADABAS database, and CONNX software. This effort will involve close collaboration with other members of the project team, including but not limited to the application architect, other developers, and the database administrator. Additionally, database views may be created for use in Tableau to assist with comprehensive agency business intelligence needs. Contract staff will also be responsible for writing technical documentation. The worker should have a strong knowledge of and experience working on software development projects and general project lifecycle. The contract staff shall work on an agile scrum team, participating in regular meetings, work sessions, and interactions with the business owners and the project team. They should be a self-starter with experience working in a virtual collaborative setting with an agile scrum development team. The worker should possess strong written and oral presentation skills, with abilities to help present work done in an application. This work will extend to at least one project to migrate data, data collection, and reporting to an agency application from two different existing processes but may also include other projects as determined by time remaining in contract. Any and all project work shall be limited to workflows, business processes, and other functionality originating from DWC and identified as a legacy modernization effort.
Required Skills:
- 8 years of Required Working as a software developer on software application development projects, either as enhancements or ground-up initiatives
- 8 years of Required Coding using the following tools: Attachmate EXTRA!, Natural 8.3, Adabas 6.5, Unix AIX 7.2, Cronus Espbatch Job Scheduler, SCL (JCL) System Control Language, Oracle 12c or 19c database, SQL, and SVN (or other version control software)
- 8 years of Required Experience supporting, patching and upgrading Natural programming language, ADABAS database, and CONNX software.
- 8 years of Required Eliciting requirements from end users and forming epics and user stories, then translating them to functional tasks for technical staff
- 8 years of Required Following requirements and user stories end-to-end to guarantee proper delivery of requested functionality
- 8 years of Required Writing technical documentation
- 8 years of Required Testing applications to ensure user requirements are met
- 3 years of Required Using Microsoft Teams or other collaboration tool to communicate and work within a team
- 3 years of Required Working on an agile scrum team as a software developer
- 3 years of Required Estimating work and sizing tasks for sprint development
- 4 years of Preferred Writing user documentation
- 4 years of Preferred Experience with NearStar print management and EntireX by SoftwareAG
- 4 years of Preferred Experience working on Java applications.