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
US Citizen, Green Card, TN, GC EAD and H4 EAD only No Third-party agencies corp to corp.
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.
• 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.
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
Location : Pittsburgh, PA
Position Type : Contract
US Citizen, Green Card, TN, GC EAD and H4 EAD only No Third-party agencies corp to corp.
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.
• 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.
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.