Cobol Specialist

vTech can help you avoid the daunting task of writing and posting job offers, shifting through resumes and laboring through the lengthy interview process. Our Staffing solutions will allow you to elude those tasks and place topnotch, high-caliber professionals in the position you need to fill.

We use our expertise, knowledge, and global resources to deliver top-quality candidates and tailor our IT and Non-IT recruitment services to your needs. This allows us to deliver the required results in a timely manner that meets your schedule at a substantially reduced cost.

We pride ourselves for having one of the fastest growth rate and also the lowest turnover rates in the industry just 2.5 percent annually. We focus on the training and retaining qualified professionals with high personal and work ethics. With the help of our extensive database of internal candidates and CATS applicants tracking system, we can provide quality resources within the limited time frame.

We have also successfully placed hundreds of candidates in the areas related to Information Technology, Engineering, professional, Scientific & Clinical, etc. for both our commercial and government clients.

1. Source: A recruiter sources candidates from various sources; the search starts from our proprietary database. Using advanced sourcing methods like social media, professional networking media, internal, and 3rd party job boards, we identify qualified candidates.
2. Validate: A recruiter validates the candidates’ experience and skill sets against our client’s position.
3. Initial Screening: Based on the position and the client’s work culture, the recruiter uses initial screening questions to determine the most suitable candidates.
4. Submit: the recruiter will submit to the technical team qualified candidates who have passed the initial screening.
5. Technical Screening: The technical team then prepares a matrix of the particular requirements and required experience for the position and using a list of questions and the results, re-validates the candidates’ technical skills.
6. Background Check: Administrative personnel will provide a detailed background check, as required, per client agreement.
7. On board: On successfully completing the above steps, the candidates are welcomed on board and assisted to ensure a smooth integration at the client’s location.

The selected candidate will fill the role of Specialist on the State Automated Driver License System (SADLS). The Specialist will be responsible for analysis of complex legacy program modules, coding and testing of new and existing modules for major modifications to legacy applications.

Role responsibilities:

• Analyze, define, and document requirements for data and business processes

• Design, document, and coordinate desired changes to legacy modules

• Document the program and project deliverables as assigned

• Analyze and estimate feasibility and compatibility with other programs and projects

• Provide quality control for project deliverables

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements:

Must Have:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in corporate or government as programmer analyst.

- Minimum of 1 year of experience exposing CICS and COBOL programs as web services via CICS Transaction Server (CTS)

- Proven experience in programming techniques, programming languages in the mainframe environment.

- Proven knowledge of principles and techniques of computer programming, testing, debugging, implementation and documentation.

- Proven experience with analysis and design.

- Excellent communication skill (written, verbal, presentations)

- Excellent organization, analytical, planning and scheduling skills

- Ability to resolve highly complex problems.

- Proven experience with financial processes analysis and modification.

- Self-starter who can work with a large and diverse team of business, management and IT individuals.

- Demonstrated experience working with large project teams.

- Microsoft Suite experience (e.g, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), COBOL, CICS, TSO, MVS JCL, ENDEVOR, CA Tools, SQL, DB2 and VSAM.

Preferred:

- Experience with State or county government

- Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Experience

- Experience with Enterprise Level Application Development spanning two or more business areas

Skill Matrix:

IBM z/OS

COBOL/CICS/DB2

CICS Web Services

ENDEVOR

CA DB2 Products

DMV Application Systems

Business Systems Analysis

Adobe Live Cycle Designer

Eclipse IDE or IBM Rational Developer for Z systems

Object Oriented Design and Programming

JSP, Java Servlets, EJB

HTML, Javascript

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