COBOL Lead Developer

PERSONNEL REQUEST DOCUMENT

Position(s) Required:

COBOL Lead Developer

Designated Work Location:

Albany, NY

Anticipated Duration of the Engagement:

18 months

Mandatory Qualifications:

1. Level III- More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects with 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Developer
2. More than seven (7) years of experience in application development and support of legacy applications utilizing multiple languages including COBOL-74 and COBOL-85
   
3. Five (5) or more years of experience with system analysis and design, programming and unit and integrated testing
   
   

Desirable Qualifications:

1. Seven or more years of experience with programming in real time and batch environment.
2. Five or more years of experience monitoring production work and performing error diagnostic/debugging activities.
3. Experience creating and maintaining documentation related to designing, programming, performing code walk-throughs and testing.
4. Experience in reviewing, translating and extracting business rules and process logic from legacy code.
5. Five or more years of experience with database structures, data dictionaries and source code.
6. Five or more years of experience of working in information technology domain with New York State.
7. Five or more years of experience supporting State EBT application.
8. Five or more years of experience supporting State EBT card issuance application.
   

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Review production systems to understand major technical components and relate them to business areas. Develop applications based on technical requirements, design & architecture principles & standards. Use tools to analyze and extract business rules from legacy code. Produce work products and applications that reflect and ensure system design and delivery are in line with business needs and project plan. Document system specifications and solutions to facilitate knowledge transfer. Monitor and perform diagnostic/debugging activities. 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 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. Other duties as assigned.