Cobol/IDMS Developer (Remote)

Overview

• Tier One Technologies is looking for a COBOL/IDMS Developer to maintain and support a variety of applications while also providing support within the database environment for 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 requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods.
• Translate high-level product development strategies into system requirements specifications and work with multidisciplinary engineering teams to develop lower-level, detailed implementation requirements.
• Establish and coordinate the development of standards, practices, and procedures related to overall product development.
• Design interfaces and integrate system elements to ensure they function together as a cohesive system.
• Assess system performance using established evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
• Act as a customer liaison and support business development activities to understand and help shape requirements.
• Participate in system conceptual design and document design concepts.
• Participate in design reviews of hardware and software components to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.
• Develop system-level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures.
• Review test plans and procedures to ensure they meet contractual requirements and participate in testing activities to validate requirements.
• Modify existing databases and database management systems, or direct programmers and analysts in making required changes.
• Develop and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify database identifiers for the database management system, or direct others in coding these descriptions.
• Work as part of a project team to coordinate database development and determine project scope, requirements, and limitations.
• Review project requests describing database user needs and estimate the time and cost required to complete the project.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 4+ years of IBM z/OS mainframe experience with COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, TSO/ISPF, and Endevor.
• Strong knowledge of IDMS and ADSO (Application Development System Online).
• Ability to design, code, and test software based on defined requirements.
• Basic understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including business/systems analysis, requirements gathering, functional specification development, coding, testing, and delivery.
• Familiarity with Agile methodology is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication, problem-solving, customer service, and interpersonal skills.
• Must be a US Citizen (no dual citizenship).
• Able to obtain DoD Public Trust clearance.
• Must have lived in the United States for the past 5 years.
• Cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last 5 years. Military Service excluded.