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Role: Mainframe Developer
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 Months
Interview Process: 1-2 Rounds of Virtual Interviews
Duration of the Contract: 6 Months
Possibility for Extension: Yes, if the project needs warrant an extension.
Work Location: 100% Remote
Required Skills
5+ years of Enterprise COBOL development experience in a z/OS environment
5+ Years of Experience with NaturalOne
3+ years of JCL development and production support experience
3+ years of experience with financial/accounting systems development or support including double-entry posting, balance/accrual maintenance, value dating, reconciliation, and month-end closeouts in a regulated environment
3+ years of experience working with Adabas and VSAM
3+ years of experience with tracing undocumented logic through copybooks, call chains, and job streams
These are the skills we expect to see evidence of in the first conversation.
COBOL substantial production experience in Enterprise COBOL on z/OS, both batch and online; comfortable extending large existing programs and reading code you did not write.
NaturalOne the Eclipse-based Software AG development environment; developing, debugging, and deploying Natural applications from it, including local development and remote z/OS projects.
Natural and Adabas Natural programs, subprograms, and maps; DDMs, descriptors and superdescriptors, and Adabas file design and performance behavior.
z/OS and JCL writing and debugging JCL, procs, GDGs, utilities, SORT, and restart/rerun handling; fluent in TSO/ISPF.
Mainframe data stores VSAM file design and access, and Adabas for z/OS.
Financial accounting logic double-entry posting, balance and accrual maintenance, value dating, reconciliation, and month-end close in a regulated environment.
Analysis of legacy systems tracing undocumented logic through copybooks, call chains, and job streams, and stating clearly what a change will and will not affect.