Direct Client is Looking for COBOL and/or Micro Focus COBOL
Remote
Duration – 15 months
Minimum Qualifications
5 years experience programming in COBOL and/or Micro Focus COBOL for relational databases
Preferred Qualifications
- Technical skills sufficient to build and deploy secure, robust applications that meet business requirements.
o COBOL and/or Micro Focus COBOL
o Linux
o Oracle SQL – to create test data and script database changes
o Relational databases e.g. Oracle
o Source code repositories e.g. GitHub
o SFTP file transfer
- Documentation skills sufficient to produce technical specs, program maintenance guides, data flow diagrams and flow charts as needed to document work so others can support it in production.
- Communication skills sufficient to understand business needs and functional requirements and coordinate any related work by the same or another team.
- Presentation skills sufficient to demonstrate completed code to peer programmers.
- Experience working independently and collaboratively with a geographically dispersed team.
- Experience working in an Agile development environment with SCRUM processes.
- Experience with code deployment processes.
- Experience with the JAMS job scheduling tool.
- Experience with Azure Boards.
Desired Skills
- Micro Focus COBOL
- Putty
- Oracle SQL and SQL Developer
- GitHub
- Azure Boards
- Visio
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft 365 product suite
Sample Tasks
- Setup development environment with appropriate access and tools.
- Fetch source COBOL code out of source code control.
- Identify and implement database changes required to meet business needs.
- Identify logic changes required to meet business needs. This may include reading and interpreting government technical requirements.
- Write code to implement needed new logic.
- Compile and unit test code changes.
- Promote code from development to test and from test to production.
- Triage and fix any reported defects from unit and quality testing.
- Create guides and diagrams to document completed work.
- Engage in peer code reviews.
- Provide knowledge transfer
