Mainframe Developer Intermediate - Lincoln, NE

Nebraska Department of Transportation / Business Technology Support Division is seeking dedicated Application Developer to join our team of performance driven professionals in helping to build the best of applications in support of NDOT’s business units.  NDOT utilizes Agile development methodology.

Requirements:

• Qualified applicants will have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or hold a Technical Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent combination of education and minimum 5+ years development experience).
• Explore and gain a thorough understanding of the business.
• Troubleshoot problems and provide support on existing products and services.
• Work as part of a software development team in the implementation of projects.
• Perform daily tasks of analysis, programming and testing as needed.
• Assist with; capturing business requirements, design, system architecture and development.
• Maintain legacy applications (minor new development) in Micro Focus Cobol, Cobol and CICS that interact with the Department's Information Systems.
• Must have most recent experience within the last year coding programs in COBOL.
• Experience with SQL utilizing DB2 accessing by programs, writing queries in QMF and creating tables is required.
• Experience with JCL and job scheduling is required.
• Experience in software development utilizing Agile with SCRUM is desired but not required.
• Perform front-end, middle-tier and back-end development.
• Skilled in troubleshooting and weighing relative costs and benefits of potential actions.
• Extremely detailed oriented and able to follow Department standards, methodologies, principles and processes.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Regular and reliable attendance is required.

Experience with:

• Cobol and CICS.  (candidates MUST be able to develop in COBOL AND CICS - no exceptions)
• Job Control Language (JCL) and job scheduling.
• IBM mainframe (z/OS).
• TSO
• All aspects of the software development lifecycle and workflow.
• Visual Studio for source control.
• SQL (Structured Query Language).
• DB2
• QMF
• XPEDITER

Preferences:

• Experience developing in MicroFocus Cobol using App Master Builder and Native COBOL will be given high preference.
• Experience with application development in highway inventory systems.
• Experience with SQL Server 2012 and higher.
• Experience with designing and building secure ASP.NET applications would give candidate ability to program in C# as well as COBOL.
• Experience with Web/Windows Services.
• Experience with SSRS reports.
• Experience with Agile development methodology of 2+ years.
• Experience with Mainframe Migration (re-hosting or re-platform).

Requirements

Type

Category

Qualification

Description

Competency

Required

Skills

Architecture

AGILE - Agile Development Methodology

Novice (1-3 Years)

Yes

Skills

Architecture

Entity Framework

Novice (1-3 Years)

No

Skills

Architecture

Microsoft .NET Framework

Novice (1-3 Years)

No

Skills

Architecture

MVC

Novice (1-3 Years)

No

Skills

Architecture

Web Services and Windows Services

Novice (1-3 Years)

No

Skills

Database

Data Analysis

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Database

DB2

DB2 Z/OS

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Database

Microsoft SQL Server

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Languages

ASP. NET

Novice (1-3 Years)

No

Skills

Languages

Assembler (programming)

Proficient (4-6 Years)

No

Skills

Languages

C#

Novice (1-3 Years)

No

Skills

Languages

COBOL

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Languages

SQL

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Others

TSO/ISPF

Time Sharing Option - IBM z/OS

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Others

Windows 10, 11

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Others

XPEDITOR

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Others

CICS

Customer Information Control System (online transaction processing - IBM - z/OS)

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Others

QMF

Query Management Facility (DB2)

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Others

Microsoft Office Tools

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Others

JCL

Job Control Language

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Others

Communication skills both verbal and written

Expert (10+ Years)

Yes

Skills

Others

Project management

Novice (1-3 Years)

No

Skills

Tools

MicroFocus COBOL

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Tools

VisualStudio

Novice (1-3 Years)

No