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Job Description:
Join the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services as an IT Applications Developer/Senior – MMIS and play a key role in maintaining and enhancing the technology behind Nebraska’s Medicaid claims processing system. You’ll design, develop, and support complex COBOL and IBM DB2 applications that directly impact healthcare delivery for thousands of Nebraskans. This role is ideal for a seasoned mainframe developer with deep experience in COBOL, DB2, and CICS who thrives on solving challenging problems, ensuring system reliability, and collaborating within a large, mission-driven technical team.
This is a full-time/permanent on-site role in Lincoln, Nebraska. Not eligible to be a contracted or remote position.
Examples of Work
Job duties include:
- Design, develop, and provide production support of Nebraska Medicaid's claim processing system, in alignment with the business needs of the Nebraska Medicaid program. This includes analysis and design, programming, debugging and testing of COBOL and IBM DB2 batch computer applications.
- Provide support and problem solving for production and test issues for large, complex applications in constrained timeframes.
- Provide, on a scheduled basis, on-call support for overnight and weekend batch claims processing cycles.
- Create and maintain supporting technical documentation.
Requirements / Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications: A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, information systems, mathematics, engineering or other related field and two years of experience, education, or training in coding computer applications; programming experience can be substituted for education on a year for year basis.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years full lifecycle development with COBOL in IBM zOS mainframe (DB2 databases). Software development experience must be current (within the last year) and must be in support of a large-scale, complex application system.
- 5+ years developing relational databases, including logical design, understanding of physical design components, and complex SQL accessing a large, complex application database.
- 5+ years CICS development experience.
- Experience working as part of a large (30+) software development team using structured procedures and guidelines.
- Familiarity with tools: Abend-Aid, File-Aid, QMF/SPUFI, Xpediter, IDCAMS, DB2 Load/Unload, Syncsort
- Experience in Medicaid/claims processing systems
Other: Position is located on-site at the Nebraska State Office Building in Lincoln.
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Benefits
We offer a comprehensive package of pay, benefits, paid time off, retirement and professional development opportunities to help you get the most out of your career and life. Your paycheck is just part of your total compensation.
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Equal Opportunity Statement
The State of Nebraska values our teammates as well as a supportive environment that strives to promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We recruit, hire, train, and promote in all job classifications and at all levels without regard to race, color, religion, sex. age, national origin, disability, marital status or genetics.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, information systems, mathematics, engineering, or a related field
- Two years of experience, education, or training in coding computer applications
- Programming experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis
- Five or more years of full lifecycle COBOL development on IBM z/OS mainframe with DB2 databases, with current experience supporting a large-scale complex application system
- Five or more years of relational database development, including logical design, physical design components, and complex SQL
- Five or more years of CICS development experience
- Experience working on a software development team of more than 30 members using structured procedures and guidelines
- Familiarity with Abend-Aid, File-Aid, QMF/SPUFI, Xpediter, IDCAMS, DB2 Load/Unload, and Syncsort
- Experience with Medicaid or claims processing systems
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