Job ID :
4169
Company :
State of Iowa
Location :
DES MOINES, IA
Type :
Contract
Duration :
6 Months
Status :
Active
Openings :
1
Posted :
21 Oct 2013
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Complete Description:

Resource will be working on the IRIS system (legacy tax system) in the Dept of Revenue.   The resource will work on a team of other COBOL developers and will take direction from a team lead.   Must be able to work independently.

 

Responsibilities:

-                 Experience in all aspects of SDLC including specification development, design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance of complex mainframe applications.

-                 Analyze current operations and procedures;  evaluate and select practical alternatives and present them to the users; produce design specifications of the selected alternatives; and obtain user approval of selected alternatives

-                 Schedule and coordinate the development, testing, and implementation of systems

-                 Preparation and maintenance of technical documentation

-                 Performance tuning

-                 Monitor database performance and space requirements.

-                 Communicate accurate and useful status updates.

-                 Manage and report time spent on all work activities.

-                 Ability to work in a team environment

-                 Ability to comprehend complex technical and logical concepts and adapt quickly to changes

-                 Strong quantitative, analytics, problem solving, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills are required

-                 Attention to detail and maintaining high quality standards is a must

-                 Ability to prioritize and manage concurrent projects, demonstrate initiative and work independently with minimal supervision

 

Skills:

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

 

Knowledge of COBOL Programming Language

Required

8

Years

CICS experience

Required

8

Years

IDMS (Batch, DC_COBOL, ADS/) and.or DB2 and SQL

Required

8

Years

Experience working with JCL

Required

8

Years

Experience in Scheduling and coordinating the development, testing, and implementation of systems

Required

8

Years

The ability to analyze current operations and procedures and produce design specifications of the selected alternatives

Required

8

Years

Experience with SQL

Highly desired

1

Years

Working knowledge of Expeditor (debugging tool))

Highly desired

 

 

Control-M (scheduling tool)

Desired

 

 

GDGs

Desired