Mainframe Developer

Position: Mainframe Developer

Location: US Remote

Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:

• Advanced proficiency in writing, testing, and debugging COBOL, Natural, and JCL applications within a large-scale mainframe environment.
• Hands-on experience analyzing, modifying, and optimizing DB2 tables, schemas, and relational databases to integrate new data structures into existing systems.
• Knowledge of scripting and batch processing in legacy and current technology to modify online user screens (CICS/Map environments), runtime routines, and complex background batch processing jobs.
• Knowledge of Web API Development, including SOAP, REST, XML, and JSON, REST, with specific experience mapping and parsing external web-service data streams into legacy mainframe backend processing.
• Experience implementing secure user authentication and authorization protocols using enterprise frameworks such as LDAP, SAML, or OIDC.
• Experienced in analyzing existing legacy routines and batch processing workflows to integrate new functional elements and modify underlying DB2 database tables.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles, practices and techniques of application programming and software design
• Ability to accurately test software applications using a data driven development approach
• Skill in solving problems; in scheduling, testing, installing, and implementing programs; and in troubleshooting computer software systems
• Expertise in analyzing undocumented or highly customized legacy code routines to perform precise gap analysis and impact mapping.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience specifically implementing or maintaining NASWA SIDES (State Information Data Exchange System) exchanges and technical specifications.
• Strong functional knowledge of UI program workflows, specifically involving Additional Fact-Finding (ADF), Determinations and Decisions (DD), Monetary/Potential Charges (MPC), and Benefit Charges (BC).
• SDLC tools – Visio, ALM Octane
• Experience handling and securing sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within a state or federal agency framework.
• Experience with automating identity management services to include user authentication and authorization using an authentication framework, using Azure, Okta, LDAP, Entra