What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Mainframe Developer - Cobol position at Thorndale Partners?
DETAILS: SR. MAINFRAME ENGINEER-COBOL
Title: Sr. Mainframe Engineer - Cobol
Compensation: The total compensation for this role will be 140k-170/year to start with a Base salary 130-140k Bonus Work life balance, strong culture, strong paid time off package with sick/vacation/personal time and Excellent benefits
Location: Hybrid Role (4 days in office/ 1 Remote ) Office is in Smyrna, TN (Suburb of Nashville)
OVERVIEW: SR. MAINFRAME ENGINEER-COBOL
This person provides ongoing development and maintenance for major financial systems including A/R, Billing and Sales Reporting applications. Leads in small to midsize projects, analysis and design of new or improved systems, ability to deal with complex development issues such as multi-platform development, and small size project management which don't cross departmental boundaries
RESPONSIBILITIES: SR. MAINFRAME ENGINEER-COBOL
- Develops, tests, and implements changes to existing mainframe COBOL programs/applications including integration with MQ and API middleware.
- Works closely with client resources to assist in solution design and implementation
- Supports user/customer community to capture system requirements.
- Works with multiple systems (i.e. Order Processing, Warehouse Processing, Billing, Sales, Credit Processing)
- Manages projects that require work from others.
- Creates project plans and manipulates the key factors (time, resources, and functionality) in order to offer alternatives to project sponsers.
- Communicates project status and issues.
- Enforces good development practices.
- Investigates new technologies and new techniques.
- Develops and modifies internal facing software applications.
- Provides application development life cycle support including specifications, prototypes, development, quality assurance, deployment and support.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: SR. MAINFRAME ENGINEER-COBOL
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or directly related experience
- 6 years development experience as application engineer/sr. programmer analyst
- 5 years mainframe COBOL and/or Mainframe/iSeries development experience
- 5 years relational database experience
- Understanding of logistics order-to-delivery process, distribution functions or transportation processes
- Experience with Account Receivable systems
- Experience with ASI Accounts Receivable system
- Knowledge of Cobol Programming on Mainframe and iSeries platforms
- Knowledge of DB2, Oracle, SQL, SSIS and SSRS
- Ability to be flexible/multi-task based on workflow demands
Salary : $120,000 - $140,000