COBOL Developer Location: Tampa, FL
Job Description:
Title: COBOL Developer
Location: Tampa, FL
Responsibilities:
Location: Tampa, FL
Responsibilities:
- Provide support and assistance for Change Control deployments.
- Provide support and assistance for resolution of break-fix tickets on timely bases.
- Provide support and assistance for internal customers.
- Self-disciplined, strong problem solving/trouble shooting skills.
- Good communication skills (verbal and written).
- Strong technical skills (MQ, DB2, CICS, COBOL, JCL, and VSAM).
- Good leadership skills; available for weekend on-call support.
- Performs and completes specific programming activities to deliver routine programs for supporting business functions.
- Provides testing of basic and routine functionality to complete and deliver assignments.
- Follows and contributes with defining specifications, coding standards, and project guidelines to ensure code integrity.
- Assists with Programming Support
- Assists in the creation of documentation to meet projects and users requests.
- Interacts with applications team members to acquire systems knowledge.
- Creates and executes queries and reports to fulfill information requests.
- Assists with systems support to ensure applications operability and reliability.Contributes to the Identification and Reporting of Defects in Work Products
- Participates in the testing of work products and processes to identify defects, to meet standards, and to ensure effectiveness.
- Contributes input to initial analysis to develop and implement appropriate actions.
- Participates in Analysis and Testing
- Contributes to the development of business and functional requirements to ensure stakeholder understanding.
- Supports the analysis of processes of low complexity to ensure accurate documentation of requirements and processes and to complete test coverage and requirement testability.
- Contributes to test scripts, set-up, plans, data, and updates to support the testing phase and to ensure test requirements are met.
- Supports the Analysis and Communication of Business Needs
- Participates in work sessions to gather relevant information and to ensure understanding of the audience\'s knowledge.
- Contributes to the analysis, understanding, and application of the appropriate level of details to ensure mapped solutions satisfy business problems and opportunities.
- Supports conflict resolution activities to ensure the achievement of common goals.
- Assists in developing business and functional requirements to ensure stakeholder understanding and to serve as a basis for corresponding work products.
- 10+ years as a software development engineer with mainframe technologies.
- 15+ years as an IT professional.
- Primary Skill:- COBOL, Advanced. JCL Advanced. VSAM, Intermediate. SQL Language Advanced. MQ, Intermediate.
- Additional Skills: XML, Intermediate. UNIX Fundamentals Beginner. UNIX Shell Beginner. SQL & PL/SQL Beginner. Current subject matter knowledge in performance engineering across mainframe disciplines.
- Experience in Health Insurance industry, and knowledge of enrollment, policy management and billing functions strongly preferred.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Science, MIS or related field of study. Masters degree preferred.