VAX COBOL Lead Sr Programmer @ Cincinnati, OH / Decatur, IL (Onsite)

Position: VAX COBOL Lead Sr Programmer
Duration: 12+ months contract
Location: Cincinnati, OH / Decatur, IL / Kentucky

JOB DESCRIPTION

SKILLS NEEDED : VAXVMS, AS400 - RPG, CL/400

Job description

• 10 years of experience in COBOL programming and VAXVMS development
• Strong COBOL programming skills
• Extensive experience with VAXVMS operating system
• Familiarity with VAX COBOL compiler and related utilities
• Experience with VAXVMS file systems and database management
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with COBOL applications and VAXVMS systems
• Provide technical support to endusers
• Develop maintain and enhance COBOL programs and applications running on VAXVMS
• Write test and debug COBOL code according to specifications
• Develop and document code according to company standards
• Proficient in the VAXVMS operating system and its associated tools
• Familiar with VAX COBOL compiler and related utilities
• Experience with VAXVMS file systems and database management
• Experience with ICMS tool and with RDB Relational Database

Preferred Skills

• Experience with specific VAXVMS applications or industries
• Experience with other legacy technologies
• Experience with Agile development methodologies

Job Responsibilities

• Work with Client Business user team for Requirement discussion
• Involve in Knowledge Acquisition Technical Design and Estimation for Fixes and Enhancements
• Effective involvement in both Functional and Technical knowledge with Customer SMEs and Tech Leads
• Work allocation and sync between Offshore Dev QA Team
• Involve in Customer business user for Project Prioritization and Design discussion
• Work with Client user team to prioritizing bug defects and changes
• Reproducing the defects reported by Client
• Expected to be a good team Collaboration between other Leads and Bas
• Work with customer help desk to takes care of complete infrastructure related tasks queries for onsite and offshore team
• Work with customer server admin team to takes care of implementation and change control tasks
• Work with Developers to perform root cause analysis and preliminary problem diagnosis
• Technically lead the VAXVMS development team
• Prompt reporting to Onsite and Offshore Managers
• Prompt reporting to Customer Stakeholders
• Educating team to make sure the nature of the defects bugs are not repeated
• Take up complete ownership of technical landscape of the application during knowledge acquisition
• Building Knowledge repository which helps Dev and QA team to understand the business Requirements
• Ability to Define Life Cycle Processes Template and Checklist
• Ability to conduct group design review with customer team
• Ability to conduct group code review with customer and offshore team
• Reach out to larger team for cross functional knowledge sharing training and review
• Ability to reach out to any customer team for resolution and clarification

Skills

Mandatory Skills : AS400 - RPG, CL/400