Posted Sep 22, 2026

Cobol/IDMS Developer

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Overview Tier One Technologies is looking for a COBOL/IDMS Developer to maintain and support a variety of applications while also providing support within the database environment for 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 requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods. - Translate high-level product development strategies into system requirements specifications and work with multidisciplinary engineering teams to develop lower-level, detailed implementation requirements. - Establish and coordinate the development of standards, practices, and procedures related to overall product development. - Design interfaces and integrate system elements to ensure they function together as a cohesive system. - Assess system performance using established evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. - Act as a customer liaison and support business development activities to understand and help shape requirements. - Participate in system conceptual design and document design concepts. - Participate in design reviews of hardware and software components to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation. - Develop system-level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures. - Review test plans and procedures to ensure they meet contractual requirements and participate in testing activities to validate requirements. - Modify existing databases and database management systems, or direct programmers and analysts in making required changes. - Develop and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify database identifiers for the database management system, or direct others in coding these descriptions. - Work as part of a project team to coordinate database development and determine project scope, requirements, and limitations. - Review project requests describing database user needs and estimate the time and cost required to complete the project. Qualifications - Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. - 4+ years of IBM z/OS mainframe experience with COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, TSO/ISPF, and Endevor. - Strong knowledge of IDMS and ADSO (Application Development System Online). - Ability to design, code, and test software based on defined requirements. - Basic understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including business/systems analysis, requirements gathering, functional specification development, coding, testing, and delivery. - Familiarity with Agile methodology is a plus. - Strong verbal and written communication, problem-solving, customer service, and interpersonal skills. - Must be a US Citizen (no dual citizenship). - Able to obtain DoD Public Trust clearance. - Must have lived in the United States for the past 5 years. - Cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last 5 years. - Military Service excluded.