Job Description

Title: COBOL / Mainframe Developer - 5-9 Years of Experience

Location: Remote (EST candidates only)

Duration: 6 Months Contract (potential extension)


Skills Needed:

• +5 Years of Mainframe COBOL (CICS), JCL, and Copybooks
• Coding in COBOL (CICS), JCL, CA7, DB2, and Batch Processing
• Developing and executing unit testing and integrations
• Run, compile, and debug in IBM Z370
• Mainframe programming in Z370 and MVS 2.04 environments

Our client, a top tier Management Consulting firm, is seeking an Maiframe/COBOL developer who is experienced working with mainframe systems to help implement a change to support correspondence generation in multiple languages (English and Spanish), including updating/creating reference tables and substitution variables.



Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain Mainframe COBOL, JCL & Copybooks to meet project requirements
• Develop and execute unit test and integration plans/scripts to validate that application changes meet technical specifications
• Participate in technical reviews at appropriate stages of development
• Interface with business and IT teams to understand business requirements and translate business requirements into formal technical requirements and application code
• Work with IT support teams (EIA, DA/DBA, server teams) to ensure support and project requirements are developed and successfully implemented
• Work with business team to complete acceptance testing and participate in integration testing
• Provide Solution Delivery Methodology artifacts associated with application components

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of mainframe Development background in design, analysis and coding: COBOL (CICS), JCL, CICS, CA7, DB2, batch processing
• IT technical background & mainframe programming experience especially z370 and MVS 2.04
• bility to work independently on enhancements to Cobol programs and subprograms and can compile, run, and debug on an IBM z370 environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for working in a global environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• bility to multi-task effectively
• Prioritize Business Impact and Urgency
• Perform application support tasks like systems support, security reviews, & maintenance tasks
• Testing experience
• bility to learn new technologies and methodologies quickly

Job Tags

Contract work, Remote work

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