COBOL Developer

Senior COBOL Developer

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

The likely salary range for this position is $111,155 - $150,385. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: Less than 10% Telecommuting Options: Remote Work Location: Any Location / Remote