Mainframe Developer

Requirements:

• Qualified applicants will have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or hold a Technical Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent combination of education and minimum 5+ years development experience).

• Explore and gain a thorough understanding of the business.

• Troubleshoot problems and provide support on existing products and services.

• Work as part of a software development team in the implementation of projects.

• Perform daily tasks of analysis, programming and testing as needed.

• Assist with; capturing business requirements, design, system architecture and development.

• Maintain legacy applications (minor new development) in Micro Focus Cobol, Cobol and CICS that interact with the Department's Information Systems.

• Must have most recent experience within the last year coding programs in COBOL.

• Experience with SQL utilizing DB2 accessing by programs, writing queries in QMF and creating tables is required.

• Experience with JCL and job scheduling is required.

• Experience in software development utilizing Agile with SCRUM is desired but not required.

• Perform front-end, middle-tier and back-end development.

• Skilled in troubleshooting and weighing relative costs and benefits of potential actions.

• Extremely detailed oriented and able to follow Department standards, methodologies, principles and processes.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Regular and reliable attendance is required.

Experience with:

• Cobol and CICS. (candidates MUST be able to develop in COBOL AND CICS - no exceptions)

• Job Control Language (JCL) and job scheduling.

• IBM mainframe (z/OS).

• TSO

• All aspects of the software development lifecycle and workflow.

• Visual Studio for source control.

• SQL (Structured Query Language).

• DB2

• QMF

• XPEDITER

Preferences:

• Experience developing in MicroFocus Cobol using App Master Builder and Native COBOL will be given high preference.

• Experience with application development in highway inventory systems.

• Experience with SQL Server 2012 and higher.

• Experience with designing and building secure applications would give candidate ability to program in C# as well as COBOL.

• Experience with Web/Windows Services.

• Experience with SSRS reports.

• Experience with Agile development methodology of 2+ years.

• Experience with Mainframe Migration (re-hosting or re-platform).