RQ07177 - Software Developer - Senior

Responsibilities:

• 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 walkthrough of Systems Response documents Technical Specifications and Implementation Plans.
  
• Coding of payment programs including new and existing.
  
• Preparation of test plans test data and unittesting of programs.
  
• Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of programs.
  
• As assigned response to client queries and troubleshooting 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 PRS as directed by the manager.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

MUST Have:

• Experience as a COBOL developer in an MVS environment writing programs that access DB2 and IMS databases
  
• Development and design of new programs or enhancements to existing ones (environment: IBM Mainframe COBOL and DB2 occasional IMS)
  
• Ability to analyse and update legacy COBOL code
  
• Ability to understand and analyze business requirements and to design structured programs that efficiently satisfy these requirements
  
• Experience developing or maintaining large scale IT systems including highvolume batch programs
  

Skill Set / Experience Required:

Public Sector Experience:

• Experience working in the public sector on a mainframe/legacy system.
  

Technical Skills:

• 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 highvolume 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 wellstructured 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 unittesting of programs
  
• Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of modules
  
• Participate in business requirements walkthroughs
  
• Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs
  

Analytical Skills:

• Ability to analyse and update legacy COBOL code
  
• Ability to analyze business requirements documents and liaison with clients
  
• Develop and design of new programs or enhancements to existing programs (environment: IBM Mainframe COBOL and DB2 IMS)
  
• Respond to client inquiries and trouble shooting production incidents
  

Communications:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
  
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
  
• Strong consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders