Description
Wanted: Experienced Cobol developer for a 6 month contract in Cork, Ireland
When: You must be immediately available, or within one month
This will be a technically challenging position, working on an insurance application to tight deadlines. The role will require constant interaction with other developers in the team, business analysts, QA analysts, end user representatives and project management to provide development support for a client's claims entry and adjudication application. The successful candidate for this role will have a minimum of 5+ years commercial experience as a Cobol programmer in an IBM Mainframe environment using VSAM.
Responsibilities
- Requirements analysis and application design
- Providing accurate estimates and timings to project managers
- Delivery of Cobol batch and online solutions using standard IBM Mainframe development methodologies
- Ensuring all QA procedures are satisfied in terms of process and documentation
- Bug Fixing and enhancement implementation
- Communication of designs to management and developers
Requirements
- 5+ years commercial development and support experience as a Cobol programmer in a VSE, or other similar IBM Mainframe environment
- Proficient in Cobol, CICS, JCL & VSAM
- Strong batch programming skills essential
- Experience in Financial Software eg Insurance, Banking would be preferable
- Experience of MS Access, MS Excel, Inter Test for CICS, Easytrieve and Redwood
- Explorer would be an advantage
If this exciting and challenging contract is for you then get in touch with me right away. You must be eligible to work in the Republic of Ireland and able to commence work within 4 weeks - I look forward to hearing from you!