Lead COBOL Mainframe Developer — Hybrid Albany

Cloud and Things; City of Albany (NY); Hybride; USD 90 000 - 117 000; Temps partiel

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Public sector impact

Agile leadership exposure

Professional development

Résumé du poste

Cloud and Things is seeking a COBOL Developer (Developer Level 3) to support New York State’s Integrated Eligibility System modernization. This part-time role involves analyzing and maintaining legacy mainframe applications, troubleshooting production issues, and documenting business rules to facilitate reliable health and human services systems.

The position requires extensive COBOL experience on mainframes, strong analysis skills, and leadership capability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience working on complex projects, including 2+ years in a Developer leadership role (Level III).
• 7+ years of direct COBOL 74 and/or COBOL 85 programming experience on mainframes.
• 5+ years of mainframe systems analysis, design, programming, and testing experience.
• Desirable: 7+ years developing and maintaining COBOL applications including routines, procedures, TIP screens, ECL, and batch jobs.
• Desirable: 4+ years of production support, monitoring, and debugging in a mainframe environment.
• Desirable: 4+ years with RDMS and DMS databases and data dictionaries.

Responsabilités

• Review production mainframe systems to map major components to business functions.
• Analyze COBOL routines, TIP screens, ECL, batch jobs, and FTP processes.
• Examine RDMS/DMS database structures, data dictionaries, and source code for discrepancies.
• Monitor production systems, diagnose and debug issues in the mainframe environment.
• Document system specifications, findings, and solutions for knowledge transfer.
• Collaborate with architects and development teams to refine designs.
• Coordinate team activities and act as SME throughout the SDLC.
• Report progress, risks, and issues to supervisors and project leads.

Connaissances

COBOL development

Mainframe systems analysis

Leadership / team leadership

Hybrid work experience

Outils

COBOL

ECL

TIP screens

RDMS

DMS

Description du poste

Cloud and Things is seeking a COBOL Developer (Developer Level 3) to support New York State’s Integrated Eligibility System modernization. This part-time role involves analyzing and maintaining legacy mainframe applications, troubleshooting production issues, and documenting business rules to facilitate reliable health and human services systems.

The position requires extensive COBOL experience on mainframes, strong analysis skills, and leadership capability.