Overview
Senior COBOL Application Developer | 19673
Contract: 6 months, indefinite 6 month extensions
Hybrid: 1-2 days on-site
Local Candidates Only
Richmond, VA
Responsibilities
• Work with business units to gather and document new system requirements. • Analyze and document existing COBOL programs and flows.
• Design, develop, and test changes to enhance existing software applications. • Troubleshoot, fix, test, and coordinate deployment for reported production issues.
• Create, read, update, and delete data stored in DB2 and VSAM.
• Migrate VSAM data structures to DB2, along with the corresponding changes to the applications.
• Develop, analyze, and tune SQL queries to improve system performance.
• Expose new and existing CICS/COBOL assets as services.
• Coordinate with other application teams on releases with dependencies spanning technology stacks.
Top MUST HAVE Skills:
• Extensive knowledge of the COBOL programming language.
• Seven or more years professional programming experience with COBOL.
• Experience working with IBM Mainframes and the CICS environment.
• Experience interacting with relational databases (DB2, Oracle, etc.) from COBOL.
• In-depth knowledge of and proven experience with ANSI SQL.
• Experience with IBM’s Job Control Language (JCL).
• Ability to document system requirements and flows using the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Visio, etc.). • Good oral and written communication skills.
• Strong technical analysis and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work independently, and closely with other teams.
Strong Nice to Have Skills:
• Experience with Financial Systems.
• Experience with z/VSE. • Experience with JCL within z/VSE.
• Experience with the ICCF editor.
• Experience with DB2 9+.
• Experience with VSAM.
• Experience with other programming, scripting, and markup languages (C, C++, HTML, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python, XML, YAML etc.).
Job Type:full_time
