Cobol Developer (Database) - Thousand Oaks, CA - Georgia IT Inc.

San Francisco, CA

About the Job

Job Title: Cobol Developer (Database)
Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
Duration of the Contract: 6 to 12 Months
Contract to Hire: No
Interview Process: 2 Phone interviews
Legal Status: EAD, Citizen, Green Card
Rate: DOE (Only W2 / 1099)

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General Business Skills:

BA/BS Degree or Equivalent Experience
Anthem Retiree encouraged to apply

Preferred Skills:

Strong technical expertise in mainframe based environment is required
Strong development expertise in COBOL is required
Strong application development expertise in database technologies like DB2, IMS DB/DC is required
Expertise in changeman and IBM suite of tools like Fault analyzer, File Manager etc.. is preferred

Additional Job Description Details:
The candidate should have strong technical skills to understand the solution proposed, complete requirements, complete development work (COBOL, DB2, IMS, tableBase) and see thru the development work till implementation.

Summary:
Responsible for programming on specific application subsets of the company's application portfolio, participating in all phases of the development and maintenance life cycle, typically for an assigned business unit or corporate department and utilizing various customer technology platforms.

Major Job Duties And Responsibilities:

Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings. Owns the change request process and may coordinate with other teams as necessary. Develops and owns list of final enhancements. Develops and defines application scope and objectives and prepares technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written. Performs technical design reviews and code reviews. Ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan. Assesses current status and supports data information planning. Coordinates on-call support and ensures effective monitoring of system. Maintains technical development environment.

Education/Experience:
Requires an AA, BA/BS degree or technical institute training and 5 or more years experience on one or more platforms, multi database, multi language and expert level experience with business and technical applications, or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background. SKILLS: Incumbent should also have the ability to mentor others, lead multiple small projects and provide troubleshooting support.

Source : Georgia IT Inc.