Role: Mainframe/ Cobol developer

Location: Toronto, Canada

Duration: Long term

Rate: Market

• Participate in business requirements walkthroughs.
• Analysis of business requirement documents and liaison with clients.
• Development and design of new programs or enhancements to existing ones (environment: IBM Mainframe COBOL and DB2, occasional IMS).
• Creation and walk-through of Systems Response documents, Technical Specifications and Implementation Plans.
• Coding of payment programs including new and existing.
• Preparation of test plans, test data, and unit-testing of programs.
• Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of programs.
• As assigned, response to client queries and trouble-shooting of production incidents.
• Updates to key knowledge transfer documents such as the Claims System documentation and the Overview of Architected Payment Systems.
• Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs as well as test case and test results walkthroughs.
• Support testing of the changes by other team members.
• Weekly reporting on status, progress, and key issue/concerns as directed by the Project Lead or Sr. Project Manager.
• Transfer skills and knowledge to selected OPS staff.
• The resource may be required to do similar work related to the role, for other initiatives within PRSB, as directed by the manager.

MUST HAVES:

• Recent (within last year) experience as a COBOL developer in an MVS environment writing programs that access DB2 and IMS databases

• Experience in structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications.

• Experience with one or more platforms, including the operating system, database technology, communication protocols, middleware and gateways

• Experience developing or maintaining large scale IT systems, including high-volume batch programs

• Development and design of new programs or enhancements to existing ones (environment: IBM Mainframe COBOL and DB2, occasional IMS)

• Ability to understand and analyze business requirements, and to design structured programs that efficiently satisfy these requirements

• Ability to write programs that are modular, well-structured, and easy to maintain

• Demonstrated success writing system design and implementation documents

• Experience with, and understanding of, relational databases

• Preparation of test plans, test data, and unit-testing of programs

• Ability to analyse and update legacy COBOL code