Lead COBOL Developer

Title: Lead COBOL Developer
Location: Albany, NY (Need local or from nearby state)
Job Type: 18 Months

Mandatory Qualifications:
* 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.
* More than seven (7) years of experience in application development and support of legacy applications utilizing multiple languages including COBOL-74 and COBOL-85.
* Five (5) or more years of experience with system analysis and design, programming and unit and integrated testing.

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 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.