Cobol/CICS Programmer

• Responsible for analyzing, coding, testing, and support of legacy mainframe system supporting day to day plant operations.
• Provide senior-level analytical and coding skills on large and complex on-line and batch mainframe (COBOL) applications.
• Work with customers to define requirements, document requirements, update existing documentation, designing, coding, testing, implementing software changes and providing production support in an IBM mainframe environment.

Cobol/CICS Programmer shall have at least 8 years experience with maintaining and supporting legacy enterprise mainframe systems.

This experience must include:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• 8+ years IBM COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2 and SQL experience
• Experience in providing analysis for large plant production operations
• Production support experience of at least four years with expertise in debugging system and application issues in a batch oriented system
• 3+ years or more of Oracle DB skills on Windows platform, along with coding shell scripts
• 3+ years of Visual C++
• MS Access experience a plus
• Must be willing to work flexible hours
• Ability to quickly grasp technical issues and offer solutions
• Strong analytical problem solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Outgoing and enthusiastic personality
• Professional business demeanor
• Customer-focused attitude and desire to interface directly with end-user clients