Senior Developer (COBOL)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or other job-related degree OR 4 years of job-related work experience OR 2 years of job-related experience plus an associate degree in computer science, information technology, or other job-related degree
• 8 years application development, systems testing, or other job-related experience
• Advanced understanding of applications/development, quality assurance and integration methodologies, concepts and facilities in a mainframe, midrange, and/or PC/LAN environment
• Serve as a technical expert on host development, providing guidance and direction to other staff and resolving complex problems
• Analyze and research system to improve business processes
• Train, lead, and provide technical guidance to staff within a host environment (COBOL, JCL, VSAM)
• Direct the work of peers
• Serve as technical lead on projects
• Work autonomously with a demonstrated ability to tackle complex problems, identify root causes, and plan remediation
• Ability to work with an unknown process and learn it with documentation and/or minimal support from others

• Responsible for analysis, design, programming, and implementation of complex applications tasks and projects
• Devise feasible, logical procedures to resolve business problems through the use of computer resources
• Formulate scope and objectives through research to develop or modify complex systems
• Review detailed specifications and recommend modifications
• Design, code, test and debug complex application programs
• Produce deliverables related to the assigned project
• Test modified programs, create necessary test files and data, verify logic, debug, and write relevant documentation