Senior Cobol Mainframe Application Developer

What success looks like in this role:

• Designs complex requirements to comply with project standards delivered on time and to specification.
• Performs detailed design of complex applications and complex architecture components.
• Performs coding and unit testing activities for complex requirements independently. Works medium to complex defects and resolves performance problems.
• Reviews design, coding, and unit testing. Manages code reviews and ensures that code complies with the standard defined for the project.
• Accountable for service commitments at individual request level for in scope applications and requests.
• Ensures that the effort consumed for resolving the TR are in line with the duration defined for the program. • Is an expert in deployment activities (QAT, UAT environments etc...) Functional knowledge in one or more functional groups and the requirements / Use cases with guidance from BA’s
• Provide inputs on technical dependencies and prioritization of requirements. • Ensures that CSAT is Green related to service quality, adherence to SLA, skill, technical expertise, understanding the business needs and competency.
• Coordinates technical release activities with applications development and operations staff to ensure successful release outcomes. Provides mentorship and guidance to junior team members in understanding requirements clearly without any ambiguity.
• May lead and mentor a team of up to 10 developers in configuring and developing. This mix can be on or offshore and Unisys or contractor employees with less development experience.
• Oversees all build and deployment activities for application development efforts. Responsible for managing the integrity of all pre-production environments, such as development, test, QA and staging environments. • May be responsible for the analysis, design, implementation and support of all systems and processes supporting the configuration management process, such as source code management, workflow, issue tracking, deployment, provisioning and testing automation.
• May lead efforts in process improvement and may monitor the performance of all configuration management activities. May provide leadership and guidance for the development, testing and implementation of processes used for configuration management, deployment and automation.
• May define CCM Strategy/Plan, may design and maintain the branching and merging strategy and component architecture.
• May design the integration between the SCM tools and CI Tools and may setting Configuration Management policies and procedures • Write at least one white-paper/case study or present a tech-talk on any technical/process/management topic. • Promotes innovation within team or project.
• A key part of this role is the ability to move in and work with project managers and development teams to quickly sort out issues around process and delivery. This role champions development Best Practise and can clearly explain the issues around not following these processes as required. Also mentoring team members to ensure the development team’s artefacts are of the required quality.
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You will be successful in this role if you have:

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree OR equivalent experience and minimum of 5 years of related experience.
• Is involved with all facets of the software development process, including the research, design, programming, testing and implementation of computer software.                         
• Candidate is able to work independently, without assistance and provides guidance to others.  May have an advanced education.   
• Experience performing system to system integration with a third-party vendor utilizing Service Oriented Architecture.                           
• Experience working with COBOL 74 and/or 85 programming on Unisys 2200 series or Clear Path mainframes. Experience should include monitoring production work including system analysis and design, program, unit and integrated testing.                 
• Experience monitoring production work and performing error diagnostic/debugging activities in a mainframe environment.                          
• Experience creating and maintaining documentation related to designing, programming, and testing.
• Experience in reverse engineering the requirements from COBOL programs and documenting them using a structured process
• Experience in Developing Services on Clear Path mainframes that are consumable by external systems      
• Experience in extracting data stored on OS2200 DMS and securely feeding them to external systems.

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