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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.
* Candidate is offered hybrid work schedule with 2 days on-site at Department of Transportation, Lincoln, NE. (no exceptions)
* 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 ASP.NET 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).