Cobol/CICS Developer (Remote)

A.C. Coy
Indianapolis, IN, United States
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Testing (Software) Adobe InDesign Agile Methodology Customer Information Control System (CICS) COBOL (Programming Language) Databases IBM DB2 Database Development Formal Verification Job Control Language (JCL) Systems Analysis Systems Development Life Cycle
+3 more
Software Engineering Software Requirements Analysis Information Technology

Job description

  • Tier One Technologies is seeking a COBOL/CICS Developer to provide system development, enhancement, and maintenance support for a payroll application of our U.S. Government client.
  • 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:

  • Ensure that requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods.
  • Translate high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower level detailed implementation requirements.
  • Establish and coordinate development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development.
  • Design interfaces and bring system elements together so they work as a whole.
  • Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
  • Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements.
  • Participate in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.
  • Contribute in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.
  • Generate system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures.
  • Review test plans/procedures and ensure they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participate in the testing process to validate requirements.
  • Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes.
  • 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.
  • Review project requests describing database users’ needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project., Overview: Tier One Technologies is seeking a COBOL/CICS Developer to provide system development, enhancement, and maintenance support for a payroll application of our U.S. Govern…
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Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field required.
  • 5+ years of mainframe experience using COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2.
  • 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.
  • Familiarity and knowledge of the Agile methodology is a plus.
  • Ability to work independently.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills.
  • Must be a US Citizen (no dual citizenship).
  • Able to obtain 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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