Overview
- Tier One Technologies is seeking a COBOL/CICS Developer to provide system development, enhancement, and maintenance support for a payroll application of our U.S. Government client.
- This will be a 100% remote Contract-to-Hire position.
- Must be a US Citizen.
- SELECTED CANDIDATES WITHOUT REQUIRED CLEARANCE WILL BE SUBJECT TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION TO RECEIVE IT.
Responsibilities
- Ensure that requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods.
- Translate high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower level detailed implementation requirements.
- Establish and coordinate development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development.
- Design interfaces and bring system elements together so they work as a whole.
- Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
- Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements.
- Participate in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts.
- Contribute in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation.
- Generate system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures.
- Review test plans/procedures and ensure they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participate in the testing process to validate requirements.
- Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes.
- Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system or direct others in coding descriptions.
- Work as part of a project team to coordinate database development and determine project scope and limitations.
- Review project requests describing database users' needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field required.
- 5+ years of mainframe experience using COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2.
- Ability of designing, coding and testing software requirements.
- Basic knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery.
- Familiarity and knowledge of the Agile methodology is a plus.
- Ability to work independently.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills.
- Must be a US Citizen (no dual citizenship).
- Able to obtain DoD Public Trust clearance.
- Must not have traveled outside the US for a combined total of 6 months or more in the last 5 years.
- Must have resided in the US for the last 5 years.
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