FOCUS COBOL CICS Developer

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

📋 Description

• Provide support for the development, enhancement, and maintenance of a payroll application for a U.S. Government client.

• Ensure that requirements meet client specifications and government standards through formal verification processes.

• Convert high-level product development strategies into detailed system requirement specifications.

• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines to create more granular implementation requirements.

• Establish and manage development standards, practices, and procedures for product development.

• Design interfaces and integrate various system components.

• Evaluate performance using defined criteria and technical performance metrics.

• Communicate with customers and assist in business development efforts to gather and refine requirements.

• Engage in the conceptual design of systems and document design concepts effectively.

• Participate in hardware and software component design reviews.

• Create system-level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance testing protocols.

• Review testing plans and procedures, and take part in testing to confirm that requirements are met.

• Modify existing databases and database management systems, or guide programmers and analysts in making necessary changes.

• Write and develop logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers for databases.

• Oversee database development as part of a project team and define project scope and limitations.

• Assess database project requests and provide estimates for time and costs required for completion.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen (no dual citizenship permitted).

• Over 5 years of mainframe experience with COBOL, CICS, JCL, and DB2.

• Previous experience with FOCUS COBOL is required.

• Proficient in designing, coding, and testing software requirements.

• Basic understanding of the complete software development lifecycle, from business/systems analysis to requirements gathering, functional specification development, testing, and delivery.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies is advantageous.

• Capability to work autonomously.

• Excellent verbal and written communication, problem-solving, customer service, and interpersonal abilities.

• Must be able to obtain a DoD Public Trust clearance.

• Must not have traveled outside the U.S. for a total of 6 months or more in the past 5 years.

• Must have resided in the U.S. for the last 5 years.

🏝️ Benefits

• Contract-to-Hire position.

• 100% remote work opportunity.