Senior Natural/COBOL Developer

Role: Senior Natural/COBOL Developer

Expected Duration: 8 months

Location: Remote-Texas based preferred

Experience: 10+ Years

Summary: The client has issued a request for a Natural/COBOL Developer to support their NAWSA SIDES (National Association of State Workforce Agencies State Information Data Exchange System) initiatives. The work is centered on systems analysis, COBOL/Natural/JCL development, DB2 changes, batch job updates, screen modifications, web-service data integration, testing, and troubleshooting across the client’s legacy core processing environment. An ideal candidate has deep mainframe development experience, can analyze and modify heavily customized legacy routines, understands batch and online processing in a large-scale environment, and has enough SIDES or unemployment insurance workflow knowledge to handle exchange-specific analysis across ADF, DD, MPC, and BC.

Required Skills:

• 8 Years of Advanced proficiency in writing, testing, and debugging COBOL, Natural, and JCL applications within a large-scale mainframe environment.
• 8 Years of Hands-on experience analyzing, modifying, and optimizing DB2 tables, schemas, and relational databases to integrate new data structures into existing systems.
• 8 Years of Knowledge of scripting and batch processing in legacy and current technology to modify online user screens (CICS/Map environments), runtime routines, and complex background batch processing jobs.
• 8 Years of Knowledge of Web API Development, including SOAP, REST, XML, and JSON, REST, with specific experience mapping and parsing external web-service data streams into legacy mainframe backend processing.
• 8 Years of Experience implementing secure user authentication and authorization protocols using enterprise frameworks such as LDAP, SAML, or OIDC.
• 8 Years of Experienced in analyzing existing legacy routines and batch processing workflows to integrate new functional elements and modify underlying DB2 database tables.
• 8 Years of Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles, practices and techniques of application programming and software design
• 8 Years of Ability to accurately test software applications using a data driven development approach
• 8 Years of Skill in solving problems; in scheduling, testing, installing, and implementing programs; and in troubleshooting computer software systems
• 8 Years of Expertise in analyzing undocumented or highly customized legacy code routines to perform precise gap analysis and impact mapping.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 Years of Prior experience specifically implementing or maintaining NASWA SIDES (State Information Data Exchange System) exchanges and technical specifications.
• 3 Years of Strong functional knowledge of UI program workflows, specifically involving Additional Fact-Finding (ADF), Determinations and Decisions (DD), Monetary/Potential Charges (MPC), and Benefit Charges (BC).
• 2 Years of SDLC tools – Visio, ALM Octane
• 3 Years of Experience handling and securing sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within a state or federal agency framework.
• 3 Years of Experience with automating identity management services to include user authentication and authorization using an authentication framework, using Azure, Okta, LDAP, Entra