Intermediate IBM COBOL Software Developer

Candidates MUST be authorized to work in Canada / hold a valid work visa. CCI does not sponsor work visas.

Scope

• The Justice Technology Services – MAG Solutions Branch (MSB) requires a Software Developer Intermediate with 5-9 years of experience for developing, maintaining, and administering IT solutions to support Ontario's courts in the delivery of justice services under various legislative frameworks and rules of procedure.

Assignment Deliverables

• Draft technical requirements, and prepare detailed technical solution design for maintenance of operational enhancement of mainframe systems
• Write or change, maintain and unit test programs in IMS DB/DC Mainframe using IBM COBOL for ZOS, PL/I, BTS, JCL and CLIST, following existing standards.
• Write or change, maintain and unit test programs for conversion, and Integration (between the mainframe and application servers using tools such as Connect Direct and IMS connect), following existing standards.
• Promote programs from development to system test. System test online and batch programs. All work must follow existing standards.
• Provide support in the development & production environments.
• Develop, maintain and print reports using Clist. TSO, etc. All work is required to be completed following the MSB's system development life cycle (SDLC).
• Prepare specifications, and document all modifications and enhancements made following existing standards.
• Complete work and achieve milestones within the assigned deadlines;
• Provide ICON application support for the users on an ongoing basis; and
• Perform other functions related to support and maintenance of the mainframe environment as required under the direction of the manager of the Court Systems Solutions unit
• Work with solution design lead to create data migration strategy and prepare data migration packages
• Provide application support, including participation in on-call rotation
• Support the testing teams during system and user acceptance testing
• Prepare deployment packages of code and instructions for builds in Development, UAT, and participate in knowledge transfer

Mandatory Skills:

·
5+ years experience
in designing, developing, and maintaining complex, mission-critical mainframe applications in the
COBOL language against an IMS DB/DC

· Demonstrated experience developing system integration frameworks

· Strong experience designing and implementing data migration initiatives

Nice to have Skills:

Experience in implementing system to system integration (through
APIs, web services
) involving mainframe applications

· Demonstrated Experience leading data integration and migration initiatives. Including leading discovery sessions with stakeholders and members of technical team to gather,
analyze and document requirements for data migration
.

Experience and Skillset Requirements:

Mandatory Requirements

• 5+ years experience in designing, developing, and maintaining complex, mission-critical mainframe applications in the COBOL language against an IMS DB/DC
• Demonstrated experience developing system integration frameworks
• Strong experience designing and implementing data migration initiatives

Desired Skills and Experience

• Over
  8+ years
  of overall experience in entire
  Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience maintaining and supporting mainframe solutions and
  databases
• Strong knowledge of data migration processes involving mainframe systems
• Strong I
  BM COBOL
  experience and expertise with the mainframe environment
• Experience in implementing system to system integration (through APIs, web services) involving mainframe applications
• Experience working in a similar technical environment
• Experience creating and maintaining reports within mainframe system
• Demonstrated experience in the use of tools to support application analysis
• Ability to apply lessons learned from applicable initiatives
• Successfully completed technical analysis of legacy applications for similar, complex environments
• Experience creating data reports for data migration
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Track record for meeting deadlines in a complex program environment

Resumes Evaluation/Criteria:

Criteria 1: Technical Skills - 40 Points

• 5+ year
  experience in designing, developing and maintaining complex, mission-critical mainframe applications, operating on-line and in batch using an
  IMS platform and COBOL language
  .
• Prior Working experience with:
• Mainframe - IBM z/OS
• IMS DB/DC
• IBM COBOL
• PL/I
• ISPF
• TSO
• JCL/Clist
• Experience in implementing system to system integration (through APIs, web services) involving mainframe applications

Criteria 2: Data Migration Expertise - 30 Points

• Demonstrated Experience leading data integration and migration initiatives. Including leading discovery sessions with stakeholders and members of technical team to gather, analyze and document requirements for data migration.
• Creating pre and post migration data reports to ensure migration success, data quality and data integrity with
  ETL process
  and use of ETL tools to prepare and complete

Criteria 3: Analytical Skills - 25 Points

• Translating business requirements, functional specifications, system documentation, and use cases. This includes developing detailed programming specifications, user interface designs, prototypes, configuration and customization, compiling data driven programs, conducting unit tests and debugging code.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with various stakeholders and cross-functional teams of business and IT in dynamic and complex environment

Criteria 4: Public Sector Experience - 5 Points

• Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organization.