Mainframe Cobol Developer

Job Description

Position Description & Responsibilities: As an experienced Mainframe Cobol developer, one should understand Banking industry domain and have hands on experience of working as developer for small & medium size projects. One should be good in problem solving, communication, interacting with various stakeholders from IT and LOB.

Primary Roles/Responsibilities:

• Create general system design
• Create technical specifications, clearly defining the programming effort required for new and changed programs, and interfaces to existing products.
• Provide estimates for the programming effort defined in the technical specifications.
• Identify potential roadblocks, risks and develop around them.
• Develop code that matches the specification, is maintainable and defect free.
• Complete project deliveries within time estimates.
• Work with offshore counterpart and team members, review their deliverables and help them delivering.
• Mentor other Developers, Support or Quality Assurance in understanding product architecture, new functionality, and in identifying strategies for problem resolution.
• Provide L2/L3 production support

Job Requirements

• At least 8 years of hands on experience on Mainframe COBOL
• Advanced hands on experience in COBOL is required.
• Experience in COBOL, DB2, SAS and JCL in a z/OS environment is required.
• Experience in project life cycle phases including analysis, design, programming and implementation
• Excellent organization, verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal direct supervision
• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Networks with SMEs outside own area of expertise.
• Experience in IBM Debug tool for z/OS, IBM Fault Analyzer, IBM File Manager, IBM Application Performance Analyzer, SPUFI