Cobol Software Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Plan, oversee, and coordinate software development activities across various functional areas of the Medicare Durable Medical Equipment system.

• Design, program, unit test, debug, and improve intricate fixes for the Medicare health claims processing system.

• Facilitate technical design sessions and lead the implementation of complex software components.

• Provide maintenance and development solutions leveraging extensive technical expertise.

• Blend technical knowledge with business insights to implement complex end-user and enterprise solutions with minimal guidance.

• Act as a key technical contributor on an Agile maintenance and operations team.

• Utilize advanced mainframe development concepts, practices, and engineering techniques.

• Collaborate with team members, cross-functional organizations, clients, and vendors to address complex technical challenges.

• Mentor developers and foster team growth and knowledge transfer.

• Represent the team in client-facing technical discussions.

• Provide dependable time and resource estimates for assigned tasks and projects.

• Independently troubleshoot issues and deliver effective solutions.

• Contribute to the strategic technical direction of the team and devise solutions for complex business and technology challenges.

• Implement changes into internal testing environments.

• Diagnose and resolve defects.

• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• BS/BA degree with 12+ years of relevant experience; or a Master’s degree with 10 years of relevant experience; or a high school diploma with 16 years of relevant experience.

• Over 10 years of mainframe development experience in a production or maintenance setting.

• U.S. Citizenship.

• Capability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

• Advanced knowledge of COBOL, JCL, CICS, TSO, and VSAM.

• Familiarity with health care claims processing, especially Medicare Fee For Service.

• Proven ability to excel in a highly structured and rigorous development environment.

• Demonstrated experience as a senior or principal software developer within a mainframe environment.

• Proven capability to analyze and break down business and technical requirements.

• Experience with application lifecycle methodologies, particularly Agile/SCRUM.

• Excellent communication skills and technical writing abilities, including client-facing communication.

• Ability to devise application project solutions and provide precise estimates.

• Experience with Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B, DME, or Medicare Common Working File (CWF) specific processing systems.

• Experience working with or supporting CMS programs or contracts.

• Familiarity with DevOps/DevSecOps tools and frameworks throughout the planning, defining, building, testing, releasing, and deployment processes.

• Preferred: Experience with Assembler language in a mainframe context.

• Preferred: Familiarity with GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Eclipse (IDz/RDz).

• Preferred: Exposure to Java or Python.

• Preferred: SAFe experience and/or certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Health savings account.

• Short-term disability.

• Long-term disability.

• Employee assistance program (EAP).

• Parental leave.

• 401(k).

• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation.

• Company-paid holidays.

• Potential eligibility for overtime.

• Potential eligibility for shift differential.

• Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus.