FOCUS COBOL CICS Developer

Overview

• Tier One Technologies is seeking a COBOL/CICS Developer to provide system development, enhancement, and maintenance support for a payroll application of our U.S. Government client.
• This will be a 100% remote Contract-to-Hire position.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• SELECTED CANDIDATES WITHOUT REQUIRED CLEARANCE WILL BE SUBJECT TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION TO RECEIVE IT.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods.
• Translate high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower level detailed implementation requirements.
• Establish and coordinate development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development.
• Design interfaces and bring system elements together so they work as a whole.
• Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
• Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements.
• Participate in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.
• Contribute in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.
• Generate system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures.
• Review test plans/procedures and ensure they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participate in the testing process to validate requirements.
• Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes.
• Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system or direct others in coding descriptions.
• Work as part of a project team to coordinate database development and determine project scope and limitations.
• Review project requests describing database users' needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field is recommended.
• 5+ years of mainframe experience using COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2.
• Prior experience working with FOCUS COBOL.
• Ability of designing, coding and testing software requirements.
• Basic knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery.
• Familiarity and knowledge of the Agile methodology is a plus.
• Ability to work independently.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Must be a US Citizen (no dual citizenship).
• Able to obtain DoD Public Trust clearance.
• Must not have traveled outside the US for a combined total of 6 months or more in the last 5 years.
• Must have resided in the US for the last 5 years.