Cobol Developer

Job Title:  Cobol Developer

Location: Brooklyn, NY, United States

Position Type: Contract

Candidate Preference: NY/NJ local candidates preferred

Work Schedule: Hybrid (3days onsite and 2 days remote)

Job Description:

Cobol Developer (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 affecting code modules.

Scope of Services:

The developers shall provide application design and development consultant services for the completion of an ongoing business process improvement program. The following descriptions and deliverables shall apply:

•         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 developers are 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.

Mandatory Skills:

·         Minimum of five (5) years of recent experience developing applications using COBOL for CICS and batch programs.

·         Superior proficiency with mainframe applications built with JCL, COBOL and CICS.

·         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.

·         Ability to quickly understand complex mainframe systems.

·         Exceptional presentation and organizational skills.

·         High written and oral communication skills.

Desirable Skills:

·         Experience developing applications in IBM VSE mainframe environment.

·         Experience working with stored procedures and SQL in MS SQL 2005 or above.

·         Quik job utility language experience.