COBOL Developer

General Dynamics Information TechnologyUSA PA Home Office (PAHOME), PA
$111,155 - $150,385Remote

About The Position

GDIT is seeking a Senior COBOL Developer to support the United States Postal Service. The work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of USPS. You will play a crucial role in optimizing the business functions at USPS. We are seeking a Senior COBOL Developer to join our team. This candidate will play a critical role in analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, and supporting code for our government customer, the United States Postal Service.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with applications written in COBOL on IBM Z/OS
  • Experience with information technologies and systems analysis, analyzing business requirements and developing business requirements
  • Proven ability to assess business needs and translate them into relevant solutions
  • Proficiency in JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS and CICS
  • Must be proficient in JCL COBOL, VSAM and CICS
  • Strong knowledge of batch processing and online transaction processing
  • Must have experience with IBM utilities, TSO/ISPF, and Abend-AID
  • Experience with Control-D, Control-M, File-AID
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills, especially for collaborating on mainframe integration with java developers and migration planning
  • Ability to work independently and in a team environment with a focus on quality and attention to detail
  • Knowledge/experience of SDLC practices
  • MS Excel
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
  • The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Nice To Haves

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, preferred but not required. If resources do not have a relevant college degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required.
  • Expertise in mainframe migrations projects or modernization initiatives
  • Familiarity with mainframe communications tools such as CICS and mainframe security protocols, including RACF.
  • Knowledge of best practices in mainframe migration planning, including risk assessment and resource management
  • Familiarity with AI/ML tools (CoPilot, WatsonX, ReDux, other) for code analysis, pattern recognition or modernization
  • Understanding of AI-driven code refactoring platforms/products and the ability to leverage AI to improve testing, documentation, and process optimization.
  • Experience with DevOps practices on mainframes, including tools like Jenkins and Git
  • Prior experience with performance tuning on mainframe systems
  • Prior experience with ServiceNow with Agile methodologies
  • Experience working with Product Owners and creating Features and User Stories
  • Experience with VersionOne desired or other Agile management tools
  • Working knowledge of a wide variety of programming languages
  • Experience with Changeman to create packages and promote code.
  • Ability to scan libraries to find instances of key words / phrases to help research issues.
  • May lead project teams within assigned unit develop, plan and manage project tasks

Responsibilities

  • Analyzes user/business software system requirements and determines needs
  • Determines the functionality of an application and performs upgrades over time
  • Maintains documentation to support software development policies, standards, and procedures
  • Develops, analyzes, prioritizes, and organizes requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow
  • Translates highly technical specifications into clear non-technical requirements
  • Develop and document features and user stories with acceptance criteria
  • Assists team with preparation of cost estimates
  • Implements best practices for scalability, supportability, ease of maintenance, and system performance
  • Creates current and future state documentation related to existing interfaces
  • Creates Interface Control Documents (ICD) documenting existing and future interfaces
  • Respond to incidents in ServiceNow
  • Create ServiceNow Change requests following USPS processes
  • Participate in meetings relating to specific technical projects or tasks
  • Ability to develop and maintain IT documentation.
  • Independently analyzes and develops innovative resolutions for complex problems, implements solutions independently and as part of a team.
  • Develops, plans, and manages project tasks.
  • Provides training for less experienced team members, if needed.

Benefits

  • 401K with company match
  • Comprehensive health and wellness packages
  • Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
  • Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications.
  • Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
  • Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
  • variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
  • dental plan options
  • a vision plan
  • a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
  • full flex work weeks where possible
  • a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
  • 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
  • an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
  • Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
  • The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
  • short and long-term disability benefits
  • life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
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