Cobol Mainframe Developer

Only W2

Hybrid Position

Scope of Services:


The developers shall provide application design and development consultant services to client for the completion of client' ongoing business process improvement program. The following descriptions and deliverables shall apply:

• Role: Developing applications in a Mainframe environment with integration to distributed environment resolving complex and conflicting design issues
• Objective: To analyze and improve existing business processes with application automation where possible.

Deliverables: The developers are responsible for the following:

• Analyze business requirements and design applications. Modify applications improving the existing business processes.
• Execute cleanups from production data analysis.
• Monitor various system processes as assigned.
• Ensure complete and accurate issue tracking and reporting. Escalate production timelines to meet client requests.
• Identify production issues impacting code modules.

Mandatory Skills/Experience

• Minimum of five (5) years of recent experience developing applications using COBOL for CICS and batch programs.
• Superior proficiency with mainframe applications built with JCL, COBOL and CICS.
• Experience working with VSAM files and DB2, integrating existing designs with new requirements.
• Strong experience developing in a Mainframe environment resolving complex and conflicting design issues.
• Ability to quickly understand complex mainframe systems.
• Exceptional presentation and organizational skills.
• High written and oral communication skills.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience developing applications in IBM VSE mainframe environment.
• Experience working with stored procedures and SQL in MS SQL 2005 or above.
• Quik job utility language experience.