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Encore Talent Solutions · 2 days ago

Cobol Programmer

Cincinnati Metro

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Encore Talent Solutions is seeking a Cobol Programmer to join their dynamic team, focusing on designing, developing, and supporting mainframe technology and tools. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions and participating in agile initiatives and modernization efforts.

Staffing & Recruiting

Hiring Manager

Tim Bassett

Responsibilities

Serve as mainframe Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Participates in infrastructure planning, providing insight into the future of their area(s) of technology

Responsible for establishing, maintaining, documenting, and publishing the mainframe language and development tools directions and technology roadmaps as well as coordinating cross-departmental projects that involve mainframe application migrations

Demonstrates broad technical knowledge of multiple technologies, or an in-depth knowledge of one technology including its impact on other technologies

Maintains an industry awareness of new developments in their area of expertise; learns and applies new and emerging concepts very quickly

Forms productive networks with internal and external customers, the vendor community and peers in the industry

Ensures proper documentation of complex technical systems to facilitate effective handover to operations

Leads implementation efforts – supports the analysis of vendor proposals, evaluates build versus buy, formulates the complete project plan, establishes the critical path, coordinates vendors, builds and conducts tests, and tracks project progress

Design and implement new features while improving quality of technical products and applications

Create and execute long term vision of technical products and applications

Act as a technical expert and developer on an agile squad

Drive the architecture of solutions across multiple services and applications

Develop software meeting code quality standards and metrics

Practice test-driven development

Guide communities of practice by mentoring developers, creating and enforcing standards, reviewing others code, and sharing knowledge

Achieve operational excellence by automating processes and writing maintainable, supportable, and testable code

Maintain effective partnerships with operations and engineering teams to drive service improvement

Remain current on IT trends pertaining to their area of practice

Assist with problem resolution for end users and customers

Participate in 24x7 oncall rotation

Qualification

CICS COBOLIBM MVS Z/OSMainframe Operating SystemBase SAS ProgrammerAgile methodologiesDevOps toolsFile Transfer Protocol (FTP)JCLTSOMQGitGitHubProblem-solving skillsCommunicationTeamwork abilities

Required

Proficiency in: Base SAS Programmer, CICS COBOL, COBOL, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), IBM MVS Z/OS, JCL, TSO, MQ, Git, GitHub, Mainframe Operating System and Hardware

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Excellent communication and teamwork abilities

8+ years of experience in mainframe technology, development, and platform engineering