Sr. Cobol Developer
Converge Resources
- Galveston, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bachelor's degree in technology related field or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of experience in COBOL programming and application development.
- Strong understanding of mainframe environments and related technologies including JCL, CICS, VSAM, and DB2.
- Certification in COBOL or relevant technologies is a plus.
- Experience in the following fields an asset: Z/OS Connect, Web Services, SOA, VSAM, SAS, job scheduling tools (ZEKE, ZENA, etc)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- 37.5 hour work weeks
- PTO
- Medical / Dental / Vision / Life Insurance
- 401(k) matching up to 4%
- Design, code, test, deploy, and maintain efficient and scalable COBOL, DB2 backed applications.
- Understands business requirements and can relate these to the supporting system requirements producing technical specifications for the work to be done
- Codes readable, reliable, and maintainable programs
- Performs testing of code changes
- Reviews test results with business representatives
- Provides optimal service to all internal and external customers
- Responds promptly to production issues by serving in the team's on-call rotation for the 24-hour support of the team's systems
- Works occasional night and weekend hours to meet target dates