COBOL Developer
UNIVERSAL Technologies is seeking a COBOL Developer with experience creating applications for batch programs for a hybrid role in Brooklyn, NY requiring 3 days per week onsite. Candidates with an active LinkedIn profile preferred. The right candidate will be responsible for analyzing business requirements, designing and modifying mainframe applications to improve business processes, and executing production data cleanups. The role includes monitoring system processes, ensuring complete and accurate issue tracking, escalating production timelines as needed, and identifying production issues affecting code modules.
WHO WE ARE
UNIVERSAL Technologies, LLC is a Women-Owned (M/WBE) IT solutions and consulting company focused on delivering enterprise systems that significantly improve our clients' IT performance. We work across the IT spectrum including Development, Business/Systems/Data Analysis, Project Management, Cyber Security, Network Engineering, and High-Level System Architecture.
We take pride in placing talented professionals on mission-critical technology projects that drive public sector transformation and operational excellence.
WHAT WE OFFER
Our W2 employees can expect the following benefits:
• Competitive pay
• Health/Dental Insurance
• Group Life Insurance
• 401K
• HSA/FSA
• Pre-Tax Transportation Program
• Generous Paid Time Off/Holiday package
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Minimum of five (5) years of recent experience developing applications using COBOL for CICS and batch programs
• Superior proficiency with mainframe applications built with JCL, COBOL, and CICS
• Experience working with VSAM files and DB2, integrating existing designs with new requirements
• Strong experience developing in mainframe environments, resolving complex and conflicting design issues
• Ability to quickly understand complex mainframe systems
• Experience developing applications in IBM VSE mainframe environments
• Experience working with stored procedures and SQL in MS SQL 2005 or above
• Experience with Quik job utility language
• Exceptional presentation and organizational skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills
SCOPE OF SERVICES
·Develop mainframe applications and resolve complex design issues and integrate new requirements into existing systems.
·Developing applications in a Mainframe environment with integration to distributed environment resolving complex and conflicting design issues
· Analyze and improve existing business processes with application automation where possible
• Analyze business requirements and design applications
• Modify applications to improve existing business processes
• Monitor system processes as assigned
• Ensure complete and accurate issue tracking and reporting
• Escalate production timelines to meet project requests
• Identify production issues affecting code modules
UNIVERSAL Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.