Cobol Developer

Position(s) Required: Cobol Developer Hybrid Interview: WEBEX Designated Work Location: 40 North Pearl, Albany NY Anticipated Duration of the Engagement: 14 months Mandatory Qualifications: Level III- More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects. 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Developer More than Seven (7) years of experience working directly with COBOL 74 and/or 85 programming on mainframes. Five or more years of experience with system analysis and design, programming and unit and integrated testing on mainframes Desirable Qualifications: Seven or more years of experience with Cobol routines, procedures, TIP screens, ECL, batch jobs. Five or more years of experience monitoring production work and performing error diagnostic/debugging activities in a mainframe environment Experience creating and maintaining documentation related to designing, programming, performing code walk-throughs and testing in a mainframe environment Experience in reviewing, translating and extracting business rules and process logic from COBOL code in a mainframe environment Five or more years of experience with RDMS and DMS database structures, data dictionaries and source code Five or more years of experience working in information technology within a government setting. Five or more years of experience supporting Child Support Management System. Duties/Responsibilities: • Daily activities as a Cobol Programmer will include, but are not limited to: • Review production systems to understand major technical components and relate them to business areas; • Use Cobol to analyze routines, procedures, TIP screens, ECL, batch jobs and FTPs which make up discrete parts of the systems; • Analyze DMS and RDMS database structures, data dictionaries and source code for discrepancies or inaccuracies; • Document system specifications and solutions to facilitate knowledge transfer; • Monitor and perform diagnostic/debugging activities on the mainframe; • Coordinate project activities among other team members, users, and/or requestors; • Act in advocacy role as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in all relevant phases of the IES Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC); Work closely with Architects and others on the applications development team to refine solution design; • Report status of current tasks and outstanding issues to supervisor and project leads;

Created: 2026-03-04