Software Architect - Modernization & Performance Lead

i-Link Solutions; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

i-Link Solutions seeks a Software Architect – Expert to support the State of New York with modernization efforts. The role involves production support, analysis, design, coding, and testing of complex applications, and mentoring junior programmers. Strong focus on performance tuning and documentation is required.

The position requires extensive IBM mainframe COBOL, DB2 for z/OS, and OpenText Exstream experience, along with Java development in an IBM environment using Eclipse.

Qualifications

• 72 months of Java development in an IBM environment using an Eclipse-based IDE.
• 84 months experience developing tax processing systems for government agencies.
• 84 months OpenText Exstream install/config/patch/test and design complex business applications.
• 84 months IBM COBOL programming on mainframe.
• 84 months IBM DB2 for z/OS experience.

Responsibilities

• Production support of existing applications
• Analysis, design, coding, and unit/integration testing
• Create and update program specification and detail design documentation
• Application performance tuning
• Mentor junior programmers
• Application development for modernization effort

Skills

Java programming

Mentoring

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science / Computer Information Systems / Information Systems

Tools

Eclipse IDE

Open Text Exstream

IBM COBOL (mainframe)

IBM DB2 for z/OS

Job description

i-Link Solutions seeks a Software Architect – Expert to support the State of New York with modernization efforts. The role involves production support, analysis, design, coding, and testing of complex applications, and mentoring junior programmers. Strong focus on performance tuning and documentation is required.

The position requires extensive IBM mainframe COBOL, DB2 for z/OS, and OpenText Exstream experience, along with Java development in an IBM environment using Eclipse.