Cobol/IDMS Developer

Overview

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Tier One Technologies is looking for a COBOL/IDMS Developer to maintain and support a large payroll application as well as helping in the database environment.

- This will be a 100% remote Contract-to-Hire position.

- Must be a US Citizen.

- SELECTED CANDIDATES WITHOUT REQUIRED CLEARANCE WILL BE SUBJECT TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION TO RECEIVE IT.

Responsibilities

- 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 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 user needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project.

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field required.

- 8+ years of IBM z/OS-based mainframe experience using COBOL, JCL, TSO, ISPF, Endevor, and REXX.

- Expertise working with the CA IDMS system, with the ability to perform the following:
- CA IDMS database installation & maintenance

- CA IDMS buffer tuning

- CA IDMS index tuning

- CA IDMS system generation

- CA IDMS security administration

- Must have active CompTIA Security+ certification.

- Ability of designing, coding and testing software requirements.

- Familiarity with computer development software as it relates to systems, such as SQL, Visual Basic, etc.

- Basic knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery.

- 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 be a US Citizen and be able to obtain a DoD Public Trust clearance.

- 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.

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