COBOL Programmer

Position: COBOL Programmer


Location: Concord, NH


Duration: 6+months

Important: Candidate MUST be W2 employee of our firm.

LOCAL CANDIDATES HIGHLY PREFERRED.


Candidates located within 50 miles of Concord NH preferred and will be screened first however non-local candidates will also be considered.


Required Skills:

• 5 years minimum COBOL experience
• DB2 - 5 years minimum experience
• JCL - 3 years minimum experience
• INTERTEST (or Similar) - 3 years' experience
• Strong Analytical and Problem Solving Skills
• Proven Ability to both write new analyze existing programs
• Strong SQL experience
• Proven Ability

Preferred Skills:

• Effective in team setting or as individual contributor
• Ability to multi-task
• Strong documentation skills
• Solid communication skills (written/verbal)
• MicroFocus COBOL is a plus

Hi-Level Responsibilities:

• Read existing application source code to understand program flow in a large scale enterprise application
• Modify existing COBOL Batch Programs and RPC's (real-time procedures)
• Develop new COBOL programs
• Modify and develop SQL
• Reverse engineer COBOL programs providing input for a Java conversion team with program flow from existing application code and support documentation
• Unit and integration testing