Minimum experience and education: Candidates with a BS degree must have the minimum of 11 years or 132 months of work experience specificto the job description.
If a candidate has a Master’s degree, they still need a minimum of 11 years or 132 months of work experience but only nine years or 108 months of experience specific to the job. The other work experience to meet the 132 months does not have to be IT related.
Work experience while in college can be counted toward the overall years.
If no degree, work experience may be substituted.
Background clearance: All candidates selected will have to go through a Federal government background check prior to being able to start. Generally, the background process takes between 3,4 or 5 weeks. The time is dependent on how quickly the candidate is able to complete the paperwork.
Candidates will obtain a Public Trust clearance upon approval.
Position Description:
COBOL developer supporting a Federal agency. The developer interacts with the customer and reviews requirements documentation, such as Use Cases/Detailed Functional Requirements (DFR) to glean and assess business requirements, and Problem and Incident Reports (PAIRS), Change, Asset, and Problem Reporting System (CAPRS), Quality Center, and HP ALM to glean software anomalies and create solutions.
Subsequently, apply required skills to develop and unit test COBOL-based code. The developer prepares weekly status reports to report accomplishments.
Skills Requirements:
Required:
-11+ years of strong COBOL development and maintenance experience.
-11+ years coding OS/JCL jobstreams.
-8+ years of strong CICS development and maintenance experience.
-5+ years of VSAM experience.
-5+ years of DB2 experience.
-Experience with Endevor, DB2 utilities, FileAid and Xpediter.
-Candidate should possess extensive experience with analyzing and documentation of detailed requirements, development of use cases, high level and low level design, and be capable of producing related documentation.
-Candidate must possess the experience and ability to work effectively independently without technical oversight and to collaborate effectively within and across teams.
-Candidate must have experience using scripting technologies and database scripts.
-Candidate must also have experience with acceptance testing, and test preparation, including writing test plans.
-Candidate should be familiar with configuration management/release management processes.
-Candidate should be proficient in technical communication (written and oral) and should possess strong organizational and problem resolution skills.
-Experience in a customer facing role.
-Must be able to obtain SSA Public Trust Suitability.
Desired:
-Experience with Visio
-Knowledge of:
-- SSA system architecture.
-- System engineering processes and procedures.