Job Description

**Onsite REQUIRED**

Job Description:

GDOL is looking for a skilled and
experienced COBOL Mainframe Programmer/Developer. This role involves
translating business requirements into robust programming solutions, maintaining,
and enhancing custom software, and providing production support. The ideal
candidate will possess a deep understanding of the COBOL programming language,
and JCL on IBM/DELL mainframe operating systems. This is a consulting position
offering a challenging opportunity to contribute to critical projects and
enhance your technical skills in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities:

1. Translate analysis and design
documents, as well as specifications, into well-structured programs.

– Maintain and enhance custom
developed software by modifying and testing user data entry screens, batch
processing, reports, queries, and menus.

– Conduct thorough reviews of
existing code, data, and business processes to support non-database
functions.

– Execute test program changes,
update test files, run tests, review results, and ensure the correctness
of program changes based on provided requirements.

– Identify and correct data errors
through application logic and develop data analysis/summary reports
utilizing IBM and Microsoft tools.

– Assist with the conversion from
COBOL application to web-based application.

– Prepare both program-level and
user-level documentation to support the software development lifecycle.

– Enhance software to reduce
operating time or improve efficiency, following organization guidelines
and procedures for code management and deployment.

Required Experience/Skills:

– Minimum of 5
years’ experience in COBOL development on Mainframe, JCL development, and
maintenance

– Proven
experience with COBOL, DB2 , JCL, Control-M

– Solid
understanding of the full software development life cycle, including
design, development, integration testing, and deployment.

– Ability to
troubleshoot, test, and debug computer software to produce required
outcomes.

– Strong
analytical skills to support non-database functions, correct data errors,
and develop data analysis/summary reports.

– Experience in
preparing comprehensive documentation for both program-level and
user-level.

– Excellent
communication skills to obtain user sign-off on all changes prior to
moving to production.

– Capability to
follow organization guidelines and procedures for checking out source
code, migrating changes, etc.

– Commitment to
enhancing software for improved efficiency and reduced operating time.

Hands
on experience in Cobol, DB2, CICS and JCL

Excellent
communication skills

Java
and open system experience is good to have

Good
debugging skills and should be ready to take up support activities

Java
programing knowledge

AWS
hands on experience

Postgres
DB experience

Kofax