Developer III (COBOL) 7 yrs (2-+yrs as Dev lead); App dev/COBOL 74/85; system analysis)

Mandatory Qualifications:

1. Level III- More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects with 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Developer
2. More than seven years of experience in application development and support of legacy applications utilizing multiple languages including COBOL-74 and COBOL-85 with at least six months in an Integrated Eligibility System Program.
3. Seven or more years of experience with system analysis and design, programming and unit and integrated testing.

Desirable Qualifications:

1. Seven or more years of experience programming in real-time and batch processing environments.
2. Seven or more years of experience monitoring production systems, troubleshooting/debugging, working with database structures, data dictionaries, and source code, and supporting State EBT and EBT card issuance applications within a State IT environment.
3. Seven or more years of experience creating and maintaining technical documentation, conducting code walkthroughs and testing, and reviewing, translating, and extracting business rules and process logic from legacy COBOL applications.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Review production systems to understand major technical components and relate them to business areas
• Develop applications based on technical requirements, design & architecture principles & standards
• Use tools to analyze and extract business rules from legacy code
• Produce work products and applications that reflect and ensure system design and delivery are in line with business needs and project plan
• Document system specifications and solutions to facilitate knowledge transfer
• Monitor and perform diagnostic/debugging activities
• Coordinate project activities among other team members, users, and/or requestors
• Act in advocacy role as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in all relevant phases of the IES Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Work closely with Architects and others on the applications development team to refine solution design
• Report status of current tasks and outstanding issues to supervisor and project leads
• Other duties as assigned

Consultants may be eligible to telecommute for more than 50% of their work hours, up to and including 100% remote work. Telecommuting arrangements require direct manager approval and are subject to change based on program needs. Consultants approved for 100% remote work must attend monthly in-person meetings at the Albany office and be available for major milestone meetings as needed.