Mainframe Developer

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Role: Mainframe Developer

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 Months

Interview Process: 1-2 Rounds of Virtual Interviews

Duration of the Contract: 6 Months

Possibility for Extension: Yes, if the project needs warrant an extension.

Work Location: 100% Remote

Required Skills

• 5+ years of Enterprise COBOL development experience in a z/OS environment
• 5+ Years of Experience with NaturalOne
• 3+ years of JCL development and production support experience
• 3+ years of experience with financial/accounting systems development or support including double-entry posting, balance/accrual maintenance, value dating, reconciliation, and month-end closeouts in a regulated environment
• 3+ years of experience working with Adabas and VSAM
• 3+ years of experience with tracing undocumented logic through copybooks, call chains, and job streams

• These are the skills we expect to see evidence of in the first conversation.
• COBOL substantial production experience in Enterprise COBOL on z/OS, both batch and online; comfortable extending large existing programs and reading code you did not write.
• NaturalOne the Eclipse-based Software AG development environment; developing, debugging, and deploying Natural applications from it, including local development and remote z/OS projects.
• Natural and Adabas Natural programs, subprograms, and maps; DDMs, descriptors and superdescriptors, and Adabas file design and performance behavior.
• z/OS and JCL writing and debugging JCL, procs, GDGs, utilities, SORT, and restart/rerun handling; fluent in TSO/ISPF.
• Mainframe data stores VSAM file design and access, and Adabas for z/OS.
• Financial accounting logic double-entry posting, balance and accrual maintenance, value dating, reconciliation, and month-end close in a regulated environment.
• Analysis of legacy systems tracing undocumented logic through copybooks, call chains, and job streams, and stating clearly what a change will and will not affect.