Cobol Developer-Level III Albany NY Hybrid

Mandatory Qualifications:
 Level III- More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects.
 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Developer
 More than Seven (7) years of experience working directly with COBOL 74 and/or
85 programming on mainframes.
 Five or more years of experience with system analysis and design, programming
and unit and integrated testing on mainframes

Desirable Qualifications:
 Seven or more years of experience with Cobol routines, procedures, TIP
screens, ECL, batch jobs.
 Five or more years of experience monitoring production work and performing
error diagnostic/debugging activities in a mainframe environment
 Experience creating and maintaining documentation related to designing,
programming, performing code walk-throughs and testing in a mainframe
environment
 Experience in reviewing, translating and extracting business rules and process
logic from COBOL code in a mainframe
 environment
 Five or more years of experience with RDMS and DMS database structures, data
dictionaries and source code
 Five or more years of experience working in information technology within a
government setting.
 Five or more years of experience supporting Child Support Management System.

Duties/Responsibilities:
•Daily activities as a Cobol Programmer will include, but are not limited to

• Review production systems to understand major technical components and relate
them to business areas;
• Use Cobol to analyze routines, procedures, TIP screens, ECL, batch jobs and FTPs
which make up discrete parts of the systems;
• Analyze DMS and RDMS database structures, data dictionaries and source code for
discrepancies or inaccuracies;
• Document system specifications and solutions to facilitate knowledge transfer;
• Monitor and perform diagnostic/debugging activities on the mainframe;
• 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 IES 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