Senior Programmer Analyst (COBOL)
*This is a remote position with on-site work requested with an hour’s notice, candidates local to Raleigh, NC only, please.
*This is a 5-month contract
Description:
- The Senior Programmer Analyst will be responsible for analysis of complex legacy program modules coding and testing of new and existing modules for major modifications to legacy applications.
- Our client is seeking to fill a short-term contractor assignment.
- The selected candidate will fill the role of Technical Specialist on the Department’s Electronic Lien Titling Project.
- The Specialist will be responsible for analysis of complex legacy program modules coding and testing of new and existing modules for major modifications to legacy applications.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze define and document requirements for data and business processes
- Design document and coordinate desired changes to legacy modules
- Document the program and project deliverables as assigned
- Analyze and estimate feasibility and compatibility with other programs and projects
- Provide quality control for project deliverables
Knowledge/Skills/Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in corporate or government as programmer analyst.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience exposing CICS and COBOL programs as web services via CICS Transaction Server (CTS) and/or CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG)
- Proven experience in programming techniques programming languages in the mainframe environment.
- Proven knowledge of principles and techniques of computer programming testing debugging implementation and documentation.
- Proven experience with analysis and design.
- Excellent communication skill written verbal presentations
- Excellent organization analytical planning and scheduling skills
- Ability to resolve highly complex problems.
- Proven experience with financial processes analysis and modification.
- Self-starter who can work with a large and diverse team of business management and IT individuals.
- Demonstrated experience working with large project teams.
- Microsoft Suite experience e.g Word Excel PowerPoint COBOL CICS TSO MVS JCL ENDEVOR CA Tools SQL DB2 and VSAM.
Preferred:
- Experience with State or county government
- Secure Socket Layer SSL Experience
- Experience with Enterprise Level Application Development spanning two or more business areas
- Experience with C# applications using latest .NET framework.
Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- IBM z/OS, Required 10 Years
- COBOL/CICS/DB2, Required 10 Years
- CICS Web Services, Highly desired 5 Years
- ENDEVOR, Required 10 Years
- CA DB2 Products, Required 5 Years
- DMV Application Systems, Highly desired
- Business Systems Analysis, Required 5 Years
- C# and .NET, Nice to have
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