Lead Mainframe COBOL Developer - Pittsburgh, PA - Georgia IT Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
About the Job
Job Title : Lead Mainframe COBOL Developer
Location : Pittsburgh, PA
Position Type : Contract
Job Description:
Primary Technical skills
Extensive hands-on working experience in Mainframe Cobol OR Linux Cobol, CICS, JCL, Control-M, IBM MQ and IBM DB2. This role will need a candidate who has worked in an Onsite/Offshore delivery model.
Secondary skills
Experience in supply chain ERP & WMS systems, service now, SharePoint, Microsoft office tools (Visio, PowerPoint, Xl & MS Access), ALM, teamforge, complete SDLC process and release management process.
Excellent analytical & problem solving skills, self-starter, excellent verbal & written communication skills, leads the team by example, works well with the client staff and the offshore staff, team player, good leadership skills, good mentor.
Project Description
This is part of a large managed services project involving development, enhancement, production support & maintenance of the client's critical ERP & WMS system.
Roles & Responsibilities
Onshore technical lead responsible for:
Location : Pittsburgh, PA
Position Type : Contract
Job Description:
Primary Technical skills
Extensive hands-on working experience in Mainframe Cobol OR Linux Cobol, CICS, JCL, Control-M, IBM MQ and IBM DB2. This role will need a candidate who has worked in an Onsite/Offshore delivery model.
Secondary skills
Experience in supply chain ERP & WMS systems, service now, SharePoint, Microsoft office tools (Visio, PowerPoint, Xl & MS Access), ALM, teamforge, complete SDLC process and release management process.
Excellent analytical & problem solving skills, self-starter, excellent verbal & written communication skills, leads the team by example, works well with the client staff and the offshore staff, team player, good leadership skills, good mentor.
Project Description
This is part of a large managed services project involving development, enhancement, production support & maintenance of the client's critical ERP & WMS system.
Roles & Responsibilities
Onshore technical lead responsible for:
- Working with the client business users to understand the requirements and translate that into a functional & technical specification
- Work with the Offshore teams to transfer the knowledge on systems, business requirements, functional & technical specifications
- Code and unit test as per the technical specification
- Support the offshore team with queries during development (coding & unit testing)
- Liaise with other client staff (including but not limited to) like, architects, system admins, business analyst, QA testers, PM, development & QA managers and business users as necessary to get the development, maintenance or production support tasks completed
- Act as the first line of defense and single point of contact for all queries and production incidents during US day time hours
- Provide support during QA & UAT testing and assist the offshore team in QA / UAT defect resolution as necessary
- Provide go-live and warranty support for development projects & production incidents
- Prepare functional & technical documentation on the systems that are in scope
- Acknowledge and resolve production incidents within the agreed SLA and support the offshore staff as necessary
- Identify and recommend changes (automation, improvements, etc.) to the system & processes that can add significant value to the customer
- Provide metrics and reports to support the work done in development, maintenance, production support and documentation on a weekly / monthly basis as necessary
- Prepare detailed root cause, fix and lessons learned document to critical issues
Source : Georgia IT Inc.