COBOL Mainframe Programmer

Summary

• This position request is for a COBOL MF Programmer V to augment the mainframe development team due to increased workload due to required operational activities, changes due to federal and state mandates, and modernization project needs.
• This new position will also be required to analyze code in legacy applications to assist with current business rules, processes, and to help develop future requirements.
• The existing mainframe development team performs critical operational activities to ensure monthly payroll processing, as well as daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual operations are processing successfully and maintained for applications developed on the mainframe environment 24x7x365.
• These applications primarily serve the retirement or pension system and are critical for ETF's members, employers, and retirees.
• The mainframe development team is foundational to designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining the WEBs suite of applications and any required changes made to them to meet federal, state, and local mandates, system enhancements, or modernization integration needs.
• Under the general supervision of an Application Development Bureau supervisor, this position provides advanced-level applications development work on highly complex, multi-platform mainframe and web-based business applications.
• This position performs work in all phases of the systems development life cycle, which includes requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation, enhancements and maintenance.
• The majority of work performed by this position will be related to the analyses, design and development of new applications and the support of existing applications.
• This position is expected to deliver high-quality applications and associated end-products that cost-effectively meet the business areas' requirements and timelines.
• In doing application development, this position is expected to create, promote, make full use of and follow all applicable ETF and state standards, policies and best practices.
• This includes but is not limited to the use of a code repository, code promotion policies, change management, problem tracking, business rules documentation, reports/forms/correspondence standards, mainframe integration, and project management.
• This position is required to have extensive experience in analysis, design and coding principles and concepts, in addition to developing an in-depth knowledge of the customers' business processes.
• The principal development tools currently include Java, DB2, COBOL, CICS, and JCL.

Top Skills & Years of Experience

• At least 5 years' experience of: Mainframe experience with COBOL, JCL, CICS and working with a DB2 Database
• Experience using change management to promote code and have worked in an environment using agile project management.

Nice to Have:

• Change Management
• AFP
• Bulk Mailer
• GitHub
• Basic Java