Cobol Developer

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Direct End Client: State of New York
Job Title: Cobol Developer
Duration: 12 Months Contract
Start Date: 02/19/2025
Location: 110 State Street Albany NY 12236 (Onsite 100%)
Position Type: Full Time 40 hours a week (8:00 am 5:00 pm Negotiable)
Interview Type: Webcam
Ceipal ID: SNYCOBOL780DK
Requirement ID: HBITS
W2 Rate with Health Benefit (covered complete Health Dental & Vision insurance for employee only): $66.67/Hr
W2 Rate without Benefits: $70.39/Hr
1099 or C2C Rate without Benefits: $79.99/Hr

Department: NYS Office of the State Comptroller

Description: Experienced COBOL developer to assist with support of legacy mainframe Justice Court Find Information System (JCFIS) and JCF Modernization Project.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze mainframe COBOL CICS MVS JCL VSAM and IBM utilities.
• Provide complete analysis of proposed system changes.
• Collaborate with business analysts and systems users to gather and refine system change requirements.
• Establish test conditions based on code specifications.
• Code and debug mainframe COBOL CICS MVS JCL VSAM and IBM utilities.
• Conduct technical walkthroughs of proposed system changes.
• Conduct unit testing and debugging of all code changes in a development environment.
• Debug and fix reported defects and implement enhancement requests.
• Perform Quality Assurance testing of code changes as assigned.
• Provide production support for batch & online processing.
• Monitor applications email notifications and logs for technical and/or functional issues which impact production applications and projects.
• Work closely with business analysts and system users on problem identification and resolution.
• Provide oncall support for afterhours batch processing as needed.
• Participate on JCF Modernization project team in varying roles including technical expert technical lead and team participant.
• Analyze and extract business requirements from legacy JCFIS application for use by JCF Modernization project team in developing business requirements for future Justice Court system.
• Work with JCF Modernization team or directly with JCF users to understand the business requirements from legacy JCFIS application.
• Extract application data from legacy JCFIS application for use by JCF Modernization project team in data conversion for future Justice Court system.
• Conduct parallel testing of legacy JCFIS application for use by JCF Modernization project team in parallel testing for future Justice Court system.

Required Skills:

• 60 months experience in a procedural language such as COBOL
• 60 months experience in developing the logic of a computer program based on design specifications
• 60 months experience in debugging/resolving program problems
• 60 months experience in programming in COBOL
• 60 months experience in programming in JCL
• 60 months experience in technical writing
• 12 months experience coordinating project activities or working in a leadership role
• 12 months experience providing offhours support
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field.

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