Cobol Developer

Position Description:

Ready to join an outstanding culture that cares about diversity and inclusion, corporate social responsibility and gives the freedom to innovate, influence decisions, and chart an exciting career?
CGI is more than just an IT company. Be part of a team that supports the local community with the ability draw on global best-in-class talent Benefits include a share purchase program, profit sharing, wellness credits, training and development programs.

Are you motivated by the opportunity to delight your clients by providing them with innovative solutions to sophisticated technical problems? These are exciting times for CGI, and we are looking for hardworking individuals to innovate with us. If you thrive on innovation where you can influence the direction of technical strategy, come and join our team

This is a superb opportunity to become an employee of CGI, based in Regina, to provide leading information technology services to our clients. We are seeking a Cobol Developer to join a senior team of experts, with extensive on the job training available.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Accountable for analyzing, developing, testing, implementing and documenting business and/or system solutions that will contribute to the organization's ability to achieve its goals
• Delivery of business or system solutions within a SDLC methodology
• Analyze, construct, test, implement and document application software solutions
• Support of application software solutions in compliance with Service Level Agreements
• Alignment to the organization’s chosen SDLC methodology
• Analyze, implement, maintain and document application software
• Diagnose, isolate and debug software problems and perform problem resolution
• Review, analyze, and modify programming systems, including encoding, testing, debugging and installing for a large-scale system involving real-time transaction processing
• Participate in post-implementation reviews of both application development content and process to enhance and share learning
• Analyze organizational needs for the development and implementation of applications
• Ensure that systems are developed which meet client business needs and specifications
• Maintain records for the documentation of systems development and revisions
• Design and code application programs as needed; create test transactions and runs tests
• Mentor developers on standard methodologies and perform peer review of code

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• University Degree or College Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of practical experience with: Enterprise Cobol, Z/OS, JCL, ISPR editor
• Proven oral and written communication skills with technical and non-technical staff, management and clients
• Expertise in analysis and problem solving
• Experience with providing on-call support to clients, this role requires participation in a 24x7 on call support rotation
• Experience with supporting sophisticated, integrated systems
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and testing strategies
• Knowledge of programming standard methodologies

Nice to have:
• Experience with SQL, Endevor, ADSO, IDMS databases
• 5+ years’ experience with diagnosing, isolating and debugging software problems

Skills:
• COBOL
• IBM ISPF
• JCL
• ADSO
• Endevor
• IDMS
• SQL

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