COBOL Developer | DB2  

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.

Essential Job Functions/Duties:

- 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.

Required Experience and Skills:

- Self-disciplined, strong problem solving/troubleshooting 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.

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.

Education Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, MIS or related field of study. Master’s degree preferred.