Assignment: RQ09604 - Software Developer - Senior
Start Date:
End Date:
Office Location: 21 College Street Toronto
Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement
Organization: Justice Technology Services
# Business Days:250.00
Extension # of Days: 125.00
This position is currently listed as Onsite; however the Assignment under this request will provisionally be Hybrid working 7.25 hours per calendar day sometime between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM (excluding breaks) Monday to Friday inclusive unless otherwise identified. These conditions are subject to change as the OPS reflects on its current situation. During the duration of the assignment you will be under the discretion of the Hiring Managers requirements for the Project you are assigned to.
Must haves: At least 8 years of experience with mainframe application analysis and SDLCNice to have:
- Prior Working experience with:
- Mainframe - IBM z/OS
- IMS DB/DC
- IBM COBOL
- PL/I
- ISPF
- TSO
- JCL/Clist
- Experience in implementing system to system integration (through APIs web services) involving mainframe applications
- Demonstrated Experience leading data integration and migration initiatives.
- Creating pre and post migration data reports to ensure migration success data quality and data integrity with ETL process and use of ETL tools to prepare and complete
Description A Note on Assignment Type: This position is currently listed as Onsite; however the Assignment under this request will provisionally be Hybrid working 7.25 hours per calendar day sometime between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM (excluding breaks) Monday to Friday inclusive unless otherwise identified. These conditions are subject to change as the OPS reflects on its current situation. During the duration of the assignment you will be under the discretion of the Hiring Managers requirements for the Project you are assigned to.
Scope - The purpose of this role is to provide mainframe expertise for the Courts Digital Transformation (CDT) projects data migration and/or integration workstreams which will include but not limited to data analysis data development preparation and extraction.
Assignment Deliverables - Draft technical requirements and prepare detailed technical solution design for maintenance of operational enhancement of mainframe systems.
- Write or change maintain and unit test programs in IMS DB/DC Mainframe using IBM COBOL for ZOS PL/I BTS JCL and CLIST following existing standards.
- Write or change maintain and unit test programs for conversion and Integration (between the mainframe and application servers using tools such as Connect Direct and IMS connect) following existing standards.
- Promote programs from development to system test. System test online and batch programs. All work must follow existing standards.
- Provide support in the development & production environments.
- Develop maintain and print reports using Clist. TSO etc. All work is required to be completed following the MSBs system development life cycle (SDLC).
- Prepare specifications and document all modifications and enhancements made following existing standards.
- Complete work and achieve milestones within the assigned deadlines;
- Work with solution design lead to create data migration strategy and prepare data migration packages
- Provide application support including participation in on-call rotation
- Support the testing teams during system and user acceptance testing
- Prepare deployment packages of code and instructions for builds in Development UAT and participate in knowledge transfer
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
A Note on the VOR Master Service Agreement: The VOR Master Service Agreement which expires on April 5 2026 leaves some Contracts with funding unassigned for fiscal 2026-27. If the current statement of work expires on March 31 2026 the remaining funds can be used to exercise an option to extend the SOW beyond March 31 2026 based on business case approvals. Such extensions will be allowable only if the Master Service Agreement is extended beyond April 5 2026 and be upon the same terms conditions and covenants contained in the SOW.
The start date is subject to change based on security clearances and contract signing timelines.
Experience and Skillset Requirements
Mandatory Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience with mainframe application analysis and SDLC
Desired Skills and Experience - Over 8 years of overall experience in entire Software Development Life Cycle
- Experience maintaining and supporting mainframe solutions and databases
- Strong knowledge of data migration processes involving mainframe systems
- Strong IBM COBOL experience and expertise with the mainframe environment
- Experience in implementing system to system integration (through APIs web services) involving mainframe applications
- Experience working in a similar technical environment
- Experience creating and maintaining reports within mainframe system
- Demonstrated experience in the use of tools to support application analysis
- Ability to apply lessons learned from applicable initiatives
- Successfully completed technical analysis of legacy applications for similar complex environments
- Experience creating data reports for data migration
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Track record for meeting deadlines in a complex program environment
Resumes Evaluation/Criteria: Criteria 1: Technical Skills - 40 Points - 5 year experience in designing developing and maintaining complex mission-critical mainframe applications operating on-line and in batch using an IMS platform and COBOL language.
- Prior Working experience with:
- Mainframe - IBM z/OS
- IMS DB/DC
- IBM COBOL
- PL/I
- ISPF
- TSO
- JCL/Clist
- Experience in implementing system to system integration (through APIs web services) involving mainframe applications
Criteria 2: Data Migration Expertise - 30 Points - Demonstrated Experience leading data integration and migration initiatives. Including leading discovery sessions with stakeholders and members of technical team to gather analyze and document requirements for data migration.
- Creating pre and post migration data reports to ensure migration success data quality and data integrity with ETL process and use of ETL tools to prepare and complete
Criteria 3: Analytical Skills - 25 Points
- Translating business requirements functional specifications system documentation and use cases. This includes developing detailed programming specifications user interface designs prototypes configuration and customization compiling data driven programs conducting unit tests and debugging code.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with various stakeholders and cross-functional teams of business and IT in dynamic and complex environment
Criteria 4: Public Sector Experience - 5 Points
- Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organization.
Knowledge Transfer
What needs to be KT
- Architecture Design and Technical documentation
- Prototype and related code scripts database
To whom
When
- 1:1 meetings / team meetings / documentation shared repositories; throughout the duration of the engagement etc.