Job Description
Job Title: Cobol Developer
Location: Lincoln, NE (Hybrid)
Contract: 06 + months
Job Description:
- Qualified applicants will have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or hold a Technical Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent combination of education and minimum 5+ years development experience).
- Explore and gain a thorough understanding of the business.
- Troubleshoot problems and provide support on existing products and services.
- Work as part of a software development team in the implementation of projects.
- Perform daily tasks of analysis, programming and testing as needed.
- Assist with capturing business requirements, design, system architecture and development.
- Maintain legacy applications (minor new development) in Micro Focus Cobol, Cobol and CICS that interact with the Department's Information Systems.
- Must have most recent experience within the last year coding programs in COBOL.
- Experience with SQL utilizing DB2 accessing by programs, writing queries in QMF and creating tables is required.
- Experience with JCL and job scheduling is required.
- Experience in software development utilizing Agile with SCRUM is desired but not required.
- Perform front-end, middle-tier and back-end development.
- Skilled in troubleshooting and weighing relative costs and benefits of potential actions.
- Extremely detailed oriented and able to follow Department standards, methodologies, principles, and processes.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Candidate is offered hybrid work schedule with 2 days on-site at Department of Transportation, Lincoln, NE. (no exceptions)
- Regular and reliable attendance is required.
Experience with:
- Cobol and CICS. (candidates MUST be able to develop in COBOL AND CICS - no exceptions)
- Job Control Language (JCL) and job scheduling.
- IBM mainframe (z/OS).
- TSO
- All aspects of the software development lifecycle and workflow.
- Visual Studio for source control.
- SQL (Structured Query Language).
- DB2
- QMF
- XPEDITER
Preferences:
- Experience developing in Microfocus Cobol using App Master Builder and Native COBOL will be given high preference.
- Experience with application development in highway inventory systems.
- Experience with SQL Server 2012 and higher.
- Experience with designing and building secure ASP.NET applications would give candidate ability to program in C# as well as COBOL.
- Experience with Web/Windows Services.
- Experience with SSRS reports.
- Experience with Agile development methodology of 2+ years.
- Experience with Mainframe Migration (re-hosting or re-platform).
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