WaveStrong, Inc.-posted 3 months ago
Dallas, TX
11-50 employees

Exciting Remote Cobol Developer with Hogan contract opportunity. The role involves designing, coding, testing, debugging, and supporting COBOL programs for batch and online (CICS) processing. The developer will also be responsible for developing and maintaining JCL for job scheduling, scheduling jobs via Control-M or CA-7, and integrating Mainframe applications with Hogan platforms such as assessment engines and reporting modules. Additionally, the position requires performing unit testing, conducting code reviews, and collaborating with QA to drive defects to resolution. Troubleshooting production incidents, performing root-cause analysis, and implementing permanent fixes are also key responsibilities. The developer will tune COBOL, DB2, and JCL jobs for optimal throughput and resource utilization, participate in Agile ceremonies (daily standups, backlog grooming, sprint demos), and author and maintain technical design documents, run books, and support procedures. Liaising with business analysts, project managers, and operations teams to deliver on time is essential.

  • Design, code, test, debug and support COBOL programs for batch and online (CICS) processing
  • Develop and maintain JCL for job scheduling, scheduling jobs via Control-M or CA-7
  • Integrate Mainframe applications with Hogan platforms (assessment engines, reporting modules)
  • Perform unit testing, code reviews and work with QA to drive defects to resolution
  • Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent fixes
  • Tune COBOL, DB2 and JCL jobs for optimal throughput and resource utilization
  • Participate in Agile ceremonies (daily standups, backlog grooming, sprint demos)
  • Author and maintain technical design documents, run books and support procedures
  • Liaise with business analysts, project managers and operations teams to deliver on time
  • 5+ years hands-on IBM Mainframe development with ANSI COBOL
  • Strong experience in CICS (BMS), JCL, TSO/ISPF
  • Solid DB2 SQL programming and performance-tuning skills
  • Experience working with VSAM files (ESDS, KSDS, RRDS)
  • Hands-on Hogan experience: installation, configuration, report generation or integration APIs
  • Familiarity with Mainframe source control tools (Endevor, ChangeMan or Git for z/OS)
  • Exposure to job scheduling tools (Control-M, CA-7) and monitoring (SDSF, RMF)
  • Comfortable in Agile/Scrum development environment
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving and written/oral communication skills
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