Cobol/IDMS Developer

Job Description:

• Maintain and support a large payroll application.
• Help in the database environment.
• Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design.
• Coordinate software system installations and monitor equipment functioning to ensure specifications are met.
• Modify existing databases and database management systems.
• Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to the management system or direct others in coding descriptions.
• Work as part of a project team to coordinate database development and determine project scope and limitations.
• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.
• Determine computer user needs; analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepare operating instructions; design and develop compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems.
• Ensure software standards are met.
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Review project requests describing database users’ needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish the project.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 4+ years of IBM z/OS-based mainframe experience using COBOL, CICS, JCL, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, and REXX.
• Strong knowledge of IDMS database.
• Ability of designing, coding and testing software requirements.
• Basic knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery.
• Knowledge of computer development software as it relates to systems, such as SQL, VisualBasic, etc.
• Familiarity and knowledge of the Agile methodology is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Must not have traveled outside the US for a combined total of 6 months or more in the last 5 years.
• Must have resided in the US for the last 5 years.

Benefits:

• Must be a US Citizen
• Ability to obtain DoD Public Trust clearance