Application Developer - (COBOL)

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• This is an exempt position. Salary commensurate with experience*
  
  

Overview: 

We are seeking an experienced Application Developer to support our client on a critical New York State project. This role involves maintaining and enhancing legacy applications, primarily using COBOL, while ensuring alignment with evolving business needs. The developer will contribute to system analysis, code development, and technical support within the Integrated Eligibility System (IES) environment.

Duties

• 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.
  
  

Mandatory Qualifications

• 7 years of experience working on complex projects with 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Developer.
• 7 years of experience in application development and support of legacy applications utilizing multiple languages including COBOL-74 and COBOL-85.
• 5 years of experience with system analysis and design, programming and unit and integrated testing.
  
  

Desirable Qualifications

• 7 years of experience with programming in real time and batch environment.
• 5 years of experience monitoring production work and performing error diagnostic/debugging activities.
• Experience creating and maintaining documentation related to designing, programming, performing code walk-throughs and testing.
• Experience in reviewing, translating and extracting business rules and process logic from legacy code.
• 5 years of experience with database structures, data dictionaries and source code.
• 5 years of experience of working in information technology domain with New York State.
• 5 years of experience supporting State EBT application.
• 5 years of experience supporting State EBT card issuance application.
  
  

Cloud and Things complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. 

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