What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior COBOL Developer, Albany NY (Onsite) position at Brandon Consulting Associates?
Candidate is able to work independently, without assistance and provides guidance to others. May have an advanced education.
Provide a short description of the Position :
Experienced COBOL developer to assist with support of legacy mainframe Justice Court Find Information System (JCFIS) and JCF Modernization Project.
Provide a list of the day-to-day tasks to be performed by the Selected Candidate :
- Analyze mainframe COBOL, CICS, MVS JCL, VSAM and IBM utilities.
- Provide complete analysis of proposed system changes.
- Collaborate with business analysts and systems users to gather and refine system change requirements.
- Establish test conditions based on code specifications.
- Code and debug mainframe COBOL, CICS, MVS JCL, VSAM and IBM utilities.
- Conduct technical walk-throughs of proposed system changes.
- Conduct unit testing and debugging of all code changes in a development environment.
- Debug and fix reported defects and implement enhancement requests.
- Perform Quality Assurance testing of code changes as assigned.
- Provide production support for batch & online processing.
- Monitor applications, email notifications, and logs for technical and / or functional issues which impact production applications and projects.
- Work closely with business analysts and system users on problem identification and resolution.
- Provide on-call support for after-hours batch processing as needed.
- Participate on JCF Modernization project team in varying roles including technical expert, technical lead and team participant.
- Analyze and extract business requirements from legacy JCFIS application for use by JCF Modernization project team in developing business requirements for future Justice Court system.
- Work with JCF Modernization team or directly with JCF users to understand the business requirements from legacy JCFIS application.
- Extract application data from legacy JCFIS application for use by JCF Modernization project team in data conversion for future Justice Court system.
- Conduct parallel testing of legacy JCFIS application for use by JCF Modernization project team in parallel testing for future Justice Court system.
Skill Matrix Qualification Number Requested Qualification Experience Required in Months Experience you have in Months 1 60 months experience in a procedural language such as COBOL 60 2 60 months experience in developing the logic of a computer program based on design specifications 60 3 60 months experience in debugging / resolving program problems 60 4 60 months experience in programming in COBOL 60 5 60 months experience in programming in JCL 60 6 60 months experience in technical writing 60 7 12 months experience coordinating project activities or working in a leadership role 12 8 12 months experience providing off-hours support 12 9 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field. Required Documentation
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