Cobol developer
UNICOM Technologies Inc
Indianapolis, United States of America
3 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 146KJob location
Remote
Indianapolis, United States of America
Tech stack
Agile Methodologies
Application Performance Management
JIRA
Unit Testing
Business Software
Customer Information Control System (CICS)
COBOL
Software Quality
Code Review
IBM DB2
Software Debugging
Programming Tools
Endevor
Job Control Language (JCL)
Mainframes
Systems Development Life Cycle
Software Configuration Management
Software Engineering
Data Streaming
Test Data
Virtual Storage Access Methods
Software Security
Integration Tests
Information Technology
Software Coding
Job description
- Design and develop enhancements for complex software components of the business application systems, utilizing available Mainframe development tools in a fluid environment.
- Ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.
- Monitor application performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize COBOL code.
- Conduct code reviews to maintain code quality. Working on scalability and efficiency improvements.
- Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to understand financial requirements. Enhance system functionality based on evolving business needs.
- Create technical-change documentation while staying compliant and following government regulations.
- Create unit testing results documentation, client migration documentation and software security impact analysis documents for COBOL applications.
- Define and establish test data
- Create, execute and review test plans
- Participate in unit testing, system/integration testing and client acceptance testing.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless data flow between systems.
- Support, troubleshoot and resolve issues/defects reported by end-users.
- Provide production support during system implementation and ongoing operations.
- Attend daily agile scrum meetings providing succinct updates.
Requirements
- Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
- 12 - 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with proven work experience as a COBOL Developer, CICS Developer, MVS/JCL, DB2 within a financial domain in a mainframe environment.
- Experience with lending systems is strongly preferred, along with familiarity with financial processes, accounting principles, and regulatory requirements.
- Candidates be detail-oriented, analytical, and able to work independently.
- excellent communication skills are critical as we collaborate with multi-functional client stakeholders
- Daily Experience using Endevor Software Change Management used for mainframe applications
- Checking out components., * Have Intertest or Expediter experience with Batch COBOL and CICS COBOL debugging.
- Experience with VSAM files in a mainframe environment.
- A background specifically with the student loan industry.
- JIRA experience applying daily work hours and daily updates to features and stories for each project.
- Experience with SDLC and Agile Methodologies.
