Role Summary
The Senior Applications COBOL Developer provides Technical Analyst support within the Batch team. The batch team provides development, maintenance, enhancements and production support for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Senior Applications Developers are responsible for all phases of development and maintenance on assigned projects under limited direction, communicates with business analysts to determine system requirements, independently researches system enhancements and problems.
- Performs analysis and design of computer applications
- Ability to maintain existing code and develop new code, with strong attention to detail accuracy.
- Performs programming and testing; performs related work as assigned.
- Will be responsible to manage small-to-medium projects or components of larger projects.
- Senior Applications COBOL Developers works directly with various levels of business and technical staff to determine sound technical solutions for business requirements.
- Senior Applications COBOL Developers performs production support for large, complex application and can resolve problems in constrained timeframes.
- The batch system is coded in Z/OS COBOL and executes in a Z/OS mainframe environment.
Required Qualifications
- Must have seven or more years of experience with the ability to perform development and enhancements for a large complex computer system.
- Technical knowledge and experience in supporting full life cycle of all phases of application development and testing for a large complex computer system.
- Must have seven or more years of experience with current experience with COBOL, DB2 database in an IBM z/OS mainframe environment.
- Must have working knowledge of the following development / testing utilities: TSO, Abend-AID, File-AID, QMF, Xpediter, Syncsort, Secure File Transfer protocol.
- Demonstrated analytical skills that include working directly with business staff to determine sound technical solutions for business requirements.
- Must be able to create and maintain supporting technical documentation.
- Must be competent in overall PC skills including the use of Microsoft Office products (e.g., Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Access, etc.)