Role: Cobol Developer
Location: New York, NY
Duration: Long Term (36 months)
Job Description:
Mandatory Skills:
- Minimum of five (5) years of recent experience developing applications using COBOL for CICS and batch programs.
- Superior proficiency with mainframe applications built with JCL, COBOL and CICS.
- Experience working with VSAM files and DB2, integrating existing designs with new requirements.
- Strong experience developing in Mainframe environment resolving complex and conflicting design issues.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience developing applications in IBM VSE mainframe environment.
- Experience working with stored procedures and SQL in MS SQL 2005 or above.
- Quick job utility language experience.
- Experience developing applications in REXX.
- Experience developing applications in IBM VSE mainframe environment.
- Experience working with stored procedures and SQL in MS SQL 2005 or above.
Technical Ability Mandatory Requirements:
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, and information gathering skills along with fundamental technique troubleshooting abilities.
- Strong SQL knowledge working with complex queries and stored procedures.
- Proficiency in LINUX Shell scripting, C#, and VB.NET
- Proficiency in SSRS reports' development and administration.
- Strong analytical skills demonstrated by the ability to receive and analyze requirements and propose a suitable solution that adheres to the team's methodology.
- Ability to work in multiple environments: IBM Mainframe, Windows Server, and SQL Server.
- Proficiency in mainframe applications encompassing COBOL and CICS.
- Proficiency in Control-M creating Jobs, Smart Folders, Schedules with complex interdependencies. Understanding of data structures and their relationship to ETL applications.
- Ability to quickly understand complex mainframe systems.
- Exceptional presentation and organizational skills.
- High written and oral communication skills.