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Technical Lead
Job description: JD for COBOL developer Required Technical Skills • Strong hands-on experience with COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL, CICS, JCL, and Oracle in a Red Hat Linux environment. • Experience designing, developing, and consuming SOAP/REST web services and working with microservices-based architectures. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and quickly learn new technologies. • Proficient in developing and optimizing complex SQL queries and database operations. • Hands-on experience with Micro Focus Net Express (IDE) and Red Hat Linux operating systems. • Experience developing or supporting Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) applications is preferred. • Strong understanding of JCL, batch processing, job scheduling, and production support. • Experience working with VSAM, flat files, Oracle databases, and other relational database management systems. • Good knowledge of mainframe utilities, including SORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14, and related tools. • Strong understanding of COBOL copybooks, file layouts, data structures, and data transformation processes. • Ability to analyze business and technical requirements, review RFPs, collaborate with stakeholders, prepare technical designs, provide effort estimates, and support proposal development. • Develop, unit test, and deliver high-quality software solutions that meet functional and technical requirements. • Expertise in debugging, troubleshooting, and resolving issues within large-scale, enterprise mainframe applications. Additional Technical Skills for D0 to F6 Conversion • Extensive experience implementing field length changes in legacy mainframe applications during data format conversion initiatives. • Strong expertise in analyzing and modifying COBOL copybooks, file layouts, and record structures to accommodate field size increases or decreases. • Ability to identify and remediate field length dependencies across: • COBOL data definitions (PIC clauses, REDEFINES) • Relational database schemas (Oracle, DB2, or equivalent) • VSAM datasets and flat file record layouts
• Experience performing comprehensive impact analysis for field size changes across: • Input and output interfaces • Upstream and downstream applications • Batch processes and data integration workflows
• Proficient in validating field length modifications through: • Unit testing • System and regression testing • Parallel run validation and comparison of legacy versus converted data
• Strong debugging and data validation skills using File-AID, SORT utilities, dump analysis, and other mainframe diagnostic tools to ensure data integrity and application stability following conversion changes.