Natural/COBOL Developer with NASWA SIDES

Overview

Allied Consultants, Inc is a proudly Austin based firm with over 34 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies. We are currently seeking an experience Natural/COBOL Developer with NASWA SIDES  to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team.

At Allied Consultants, we value our consultants and are committed to providing an exceptional experience including:

• Highly competitive pay rates
• Local support staff for responsive, personal service
• Comprehensive benefits package, including:
  • Medical insurance (with employer cost sharing)
  • Life insurance
  • A 401(K) plan with company match
  • Flexible spending through a cafeteria plan

Candidates selected for interviews will be subject to a criminal background check and may be required to pass a drug screening, in compliance with federal and state regulations. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of these checks.

Allied Consultants is a proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Responsibilities

The Worker(s) will provide the following services: Perform advanced automated systems development work as a member of the project team to implement the four standardized NASWA SIDES exchanges: Additional Fact-Finding, Determinations, Monetary Charges, and Benefit Charges. Responsible for activities during all phases of the system development life cycle including external customer service, analyzing and documenting requirements, coding, testing as well as resolving software, data, hardware and reporting problems and troubleshooting system issues for internal and external clients. Develops and tests COBOL, Natural and JCL Applications to meet design specifications. Documents current processes, creates and reviews project specification modifications, and creates test cases for testing the new and modified programs. Analyze, document, design, and develop logical, structured programs and systems appropriate to customer needs that may be maintained by others. Test applications in accordance with agency standards. Ensure adherence to programming documentation and procedural standards, and management goals and objectives. Perform other duties as assigned to support the NASWA SIDES initiatives. Integrate the incoming and outgoing NASWA SIDES exchange data streams into the existing core legacy processing architecture. This initiative requires comprehensive systems analysis and modification of current runtime routines, user interface screens, database tables, and batch processing jobs. Because data formats, triggers, and validation rules vary across functional areas, a separate, dedicated analysis phase must be executed independently for each of the four SIDES Exchanges (Additional Fact-Finding, Determinations, Monetary Charges, and Benefit Charges). Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements(skills/experience) will not be considered for this opportunity.

Years

Skills/Experience

8

Advanced proficiency in writing, testing, and debugging COBOL, Natural, and JCL applications within a large-scale mainframe environment.

8

Hands-on experience analyzing, modifying, and optimizing DB2 tables, schemas, and relational databases to integrate new data structures into existing systems.

8

Knowledge of scripting and batch processing in legacy and current technology to modify online user screens (CICS/Map environments), runtime routines, and complex background batch processing jobs.

8

Knowledge of Web API Development, including SOAP, REST, XML, and JSON, REST, with specific experience mapping and parsing external web-service data streams into legacy mainframe backend processing.

8

Experience implementing secure user authentication and authorization protocols using enterprise frameworks such as LDAP, SAML, or OIDC.

8

Experienced in analyzing existing legacy routines and batch processing workflows to integrate new functional elements and modify underlying DB2 database tables.

8

Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles, practices and techniques of application programming and software design

8

Ability to accurately test software applications using a data driven development approach

8

Skill in solving problems; in scheduling, testing, installing, and implementing programs; and in troubleshooting computer software systems

8

Expertise in analyzing undocumented or highly customized legacy code routines to perform precise gap analysis and impact mapping.

Preferred Qualifications:

Years

Skills/Experience

2

Prior experience specifically implementing or maintaining NASWA SIDES (State Information Data Exchange System) exchanges and technical specifications.

3

Strong functional knowledge of UI program workflows, specifically involving Additional Fact-Finding (ADF), Determinations and Decisions (DD), Monetary/Potential Charges (MPC), and Benefit Charges (BC).

2

SDLC tools – Visio, ALM Octane

3

Experience handling and securing sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within a state or federal agency framework.

3

Experience with automating identity management services to include user authentication and authorization using an authentication framework, using Azure, Okta, LDAP, Entra