COBOL Developer

Public Trust: MBI (T2)

Requisition Type: Pipeline

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to work alongside federal civilian agencies. Make an impact by providing services that help the government ensure the well being and support of U.S. citizens.

Job Description

GDIT is seeking a Senior COBOL Developer to support the United States Postal Service.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Senior COBOL Developer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of USPS. You will play a crucial role in optimizing the business functions at USPS. We are seeking a Senior COBOL Developer to join our team. This candidate will play a critical role in analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, and supporting code for our government customer, the United States Postal Service.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyzes user/business software system requirements and determines needs
• Determines the functionality of an application and performs upgrades over time
• Maintains documentation to support software development policies, standards, and procedures
• Develops, analyzes, prioritizes, and organizes requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow
• Translates highly technical specifications into clear non-technical requirements
• Develop and document features and user stories with acceptance criteria
• Assists team with preparation of cost estimates
• Implements best practices for scalability, supportability, ease of maintenance, and system performance
• Creates current and future state documentation related to existing interfaces
• Creates Interface Control Documents (ICD) documenting existing and future interfaces

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education :

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, preferred but not required.
• If resources do not have a relevant college degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required.

Required Technical Skills and Expertise :

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with applications written in COBOL on IBM Z/OS
• Experience with information technologies and systems analysis, analyzing business requirements and developing business requirements
• Proven ability to assess business needs and translate them into relevant solutions
• Proficiency in JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS and CICS
• Expertise in mainframe migrations projects or modernization initiatives (preferred)
• Familiarity with mainframe communications tools such as CICS and mainframe security protocols, including RACF.
• Must be proficient in JCL COBOL, VSAM and CICS
• Strong knowledge of batch processing and online transaction processing
• Must have experience with IBM utilities, TSO/ISPF, and Abend-AID
• Experience with Control-D, Control-M, File-AID
• Knowledge of best practices in mainframe migration planning, including risk assessment and resource management
• Familiarity with AI/ML tools (CoPilot, WatsonX, ReDux, other) for code analysis, pattern recognition or modernization
• Understanding of AI-driven code refactoring platforms/products and the ability to leverage AI to improve testing, documentation, and process optimization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, especially for collaborating on mainframe integration with java developers and migration planning
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment with a focus on quality and attention to detail

Preferred skills

• Experience with DevOps practices on mainframes, including tools like Jenkins and Git
• Prior experience with performance tuning on mainframe systems
• Prior experience with ServiceNow with Agile methodologies
• Experience working with Product Owners and creating Features and User Stories
• Experience with VersionOne desired or other Agile management tools
• Working knowledge of a wide variety of programming languages
• Experience with Changeman to create packages and promote code.
• Ability to scan libraries to find instances of key words / phrases to help research issues.
• May lead project teams within assigned unit develop, plan and manage project tasks
• Respond to incidents in ServiceNow
• Create ServiceNow Change requests following USPS processes
• Participate in meetings relating to specific technical projects or tasks
• Ability to develop and maintain IT documentation.
• Independently analyzes and develops innovative resolutions for complex problems, implements solutions independently and as part of a team.
• Develops, plans, and manages project tasks.
• Provides training for less experienced team members, if needed.
• Knowledge/experience of SDLC practices MS Excel

Security Clearance Level :

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Location :

• 100% remote in the U.S.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications.
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

5 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%