Mainframe Developer( Must have AG's NATURAL Software Exp)
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Job Title: Sr Mainframe Developer With Ag's Natural Software
Client: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Duration: 6 Months+
Location: Austin, TX(Remote)
Job Description:
CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
- Participating in all phases of SDLC, including design, software development and code review.
- Work with Business Customers, Section Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in a professional and collaborative manner to define strategies, implementation approaches and provide creative solutions to complex problems.
- Create well-designed, documented, and tested software solutions that meet strict availability, concurrency, and low latency requirements.
- Turn high-level requirements into a working system through iterative and incremental development.
- Identify and address product bugs, deficiencies, and performance bottlenecks in a timely manner.
- Write unit tests
- Develop processes and procedures for Application Services.
- Say abreast of current technologies, industry standards and best practices
- Experienced in supporting applications in a production environment including resolving processing issues as part of on-call rotation.
- Be productive working independently or in a team environment (both local and remote) with minimal supervision.
Must possess:
- a solid understanding of latest web technologies
- strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- strong problem-solving skills and ability to multi-task with readiness to put in extra effort when necessary
- the willingness to learn
The primary responsibility for this role is to develop and implement advanced solutions in alignment with CPA s standards, guidelines, and design documentation. The candidate will perform coding, testing, debugging, and provide high-quality solutions for large-scale enterprise systems.
The successful candidate will collaborate with both technical and non-technical staff to ensure seamless coordination of changes prepare test data, troubleshoot issues, and ensure systems meet availability and performance requirements. Strong technical proficiency and problem-solving skills are essential for this role.
CPA will require the Candidate to work on the following initiatives and will perform advanced analysis/programming tasks such as:
- Participating in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle, including design, software development and code review.
- Performing extensive code reviews and analysis.
- Writing reports on code analysis to determine if industry standards and best practices are being followed; provide analysis to address found short comings.
- Providing guidance and knowledge sharing to existing development staff.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Requirements: | ||
Years | Required/Preferred | Experience |
5 | Required | Experience making code changes in accordance with standards, guidelines, and design documents provided. |
5 | Required | Experience coordinating the testing, debugging, and preparing of test data and interacting with technical and non-technical staff in the coordination of changes |
5 | Required | Professional experience in software development building production software systems |
5 | Required | Experience with IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS |
5 | Required | Experience with IBM DB2 for z/OS |
5 | Required | Experience with MVS/JCL |
5 | Required | Experience with data integration and data quality |
5 | Required | Experience with Software AG's NATURAL |
5 | Required | Experience with highly complex application security requirements |
2 | Required | Experience with any of the Texas CPA Statewide Financial Systems: USAS, USPS, SPRS, TINS, HRIS and SPA |
2 | Required | Experience with Agile development experience with Scrum, Kanban, Jira, and Confluence |
2 | Required | Proficient with the Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, TEAMS, Microsoft Project, Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint |
5 | Preferred | Experience with CICS Web Services |
5 | Preferred | Experience with CONTROL-M for z/OS |
5 | Preferred | Public sector experience (Federal, State or Local Government) |
5 | Preferred | Experience designing and implementing secure RESTful web services |
5 | Preferred | Experience with: code reviews and in-depth code analysis and completing system documentation |
2 | Preferred | Experience in developing and implementing containerized web applications in cloud with high proficiency in one or more languages from our stack (REACT JS, Node JS , Phthon,JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS etc.) |
2 | Preferred | Hands-on experience in Core AWS Services like CloudFront, EC2, CloudFormation, Lamda, S3, Route53, AWS CDK,SNS & SQS |
2 | Preferred | Experience building apps using Phyton, React JS, NodeJS, webservices, writing RESTFul interfaces |
2 | Preferred | Experience designing and implementing secure RESTful web services |
1 | Preferred | Experience designing and building Microservices |
1 | Preferred | Experience with Agile teams that have iteratively and incrementally delivered software while practicing code review |
1 | Preferred | Experience with Java programming language |
1 | Preferred | Experience with coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer to junior level software developers and other personnel as required |
1 | Preferred | Experience with BMC Code Pipeline (formerly Compuware ISPW) |
1 | Preferred | Knowledge of Topaz |
1 | Preferred | Knowledge of IDz, Eclipse for Mainframe |