What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mainframe Developer position at Digipulse Technologies, Inc?
· Qualified applicants will have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or hold a Technical Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent combination of education and minimum 5 years development experience).
· Explore and gain a thorough understanding of the business.
· Troubleshoot problems and provide support on existing products and services.
· Work as part of a software development team in the implementation of projects.
· Perform daily tasks of analysis, programming and testing as needed.
· Assist with; capturing business requirements, design, system architecture and development.
· Maintain legacy applications (minor new development) in Micro Focus Cobol, Cobol and CICS that interact with the Department's Information Systems.
· Must have most recent experience within the last year coding programs in COBOL.
· Experience with SQL utilizing DB2 accessing by programs, writing queries in QMF and creating tables is required.
· Experience with JCL and job scheduling is required.
· Experience in software development utilizing Agile with SCRUM is desired but not required.
· Perform front-end, middle-tier and back-end development.
· Skilled in troubleshooting and weighing relative costs and benefits of potential actions.
· Extremely detailed oriented and able to follow standards, methodologies, principles and processes.
· Strong verbal and written communication skills.
· Regular and reliable attendance is required.
Experience with:
- Cobol and CICS. (candidates MUST be able to develop in COBOL AND CICS - no exceptions)
- Job Control Language (JCL) and job scheduling
- IBM mainframe (z/OS)
- TSO
- All aspects of the software development lifecycle and workflow.
- Visual Studio for source control.
- SQL (Structured Query Language).
- DB2
- QMF
- XPEDITER
Preferences:
- Experience developing in MicroFocus Cobol using App Master Builder and Native COBOL will be given high preference.
- Experience with application development in highway inventory systems.
- Experience with SQL Server 2012 and higher
- Experience with designing and building secure ASP.NET applications would give candidate ability to program in C# as well as COBOL
- Experience with Web/Windows Services.
- Experience with SSRS reports
- Experience with Agile development methodology of 2 years.
- Experience with Mainframe Migration (re-hosting or re-platform).