Senior COBOL Developer

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Senior COBOL Developer supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Senior COBOL Developer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a COBOL Developer joining our team to analyze design, develop, implement, and support code for our government customer, the United States Postal Service.

HOW A SENIOR COBOL DEVELOPER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

In this role, a typical day will include

• Analyzes user/business software system requirements and determines needs
• Determines the functionality of an application and performs upgrades over time
• Maintains documentation to support software development policies, standards, and procedures
• Develops, analyzes, prioritizes, and organizes requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow
• Translates highly technical specifications into clear non-technical requirements
• Develops and documents features and user stories with acceptance criteria
• Assists team with preparation of cost estimates
• Implements best practices for scalability, supportability, ease of maintenance, and system performance
• Creates current and future state documentation related to existing interfaces
• Creates Interface Control Documents (ICD) documenting existing and future interfaces

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, preferred but not required.
• NOTE: If resources do not have a relevant college degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required.

Required Experience

• 10+ years’ Experience with applications written in COBOL
• 10+ years’ Experience and knowledge of DB2 Databases integrated with the mainframe
• Knowledge/experience of SDLC practices
• Experience with information technologies and systems analysis, analyzing business requirements and developing business requirements
• Proven ability to assess business needs and translate them into relevant solutions
• Knowledge/experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience working with Product Owners and creating Features and User Stories
• Experience with VersionOne desired or other Agile management tools
• Working knowledge of a wide variety of programming languages
• Experience with Neon Servers on the mainframe desired
• Experience with Changeman to create packages and promote code
• Ability to scan libraries to find instances of key words / phrases to help research issues
• Respond to incidents in ServiceNow
• Create ServiceNow Change requests following USPS processes
• Participate in meetings relating to specific technical projects or tasks
• Ability to develop and maintain IT documentation
• Independently analyzes and develops innovative resolutions for complex problems, implements solutions independently and as part of a team
• May lead project teams within assigned unit to develop, plan, and manage project tasks
• Develops, plans, and manages project tasks
• Provides training for less experienced team members, if needed

Security Clearance Level

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Location

• 100% remote in the U.S.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications.
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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Qualifications

• NOTE: If resources do not have a relevant college degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required
• 10+ years’ Experience with applications written in COBOL
• 10+ years’ Experience and knowledge of DB2 Databases integrated with the mainframe
• Knowledge/experience of SDLC practices
• Experience with information technologies and systems analysis, analyzing business requirements and developing business requirements
• Proven ability to assess business needs and translate them into relevant solutions
• Knowledge/experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience working with Product Owners and creating Features and User Stories
• Working knowledge of a wide variety of programming languages
• Experience with Changeman to create packages and promote code
• Ability to scan libraries to find instances of key words / phrases to help research issues
• Respond to incidents in ServiceNow
• Create ServiceNow Change requests following USPS processes
• Participate in meetings relating to specific technical projects or tasks
• Ability to develop and maintain IT documentation
• Independently analyzes and develops innovative resolutions for complex problems, implements solutions independently and as part of a team
• May lead project teams within assigned unit to develop, plan, and manage project tasks
• Provides training for less experienced team members, if needed
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement
• The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions)

Benefits

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

Responsibilities

• HOW A SENIOR COBOL DEVELOPER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
• Analyzes user/business software system requirements and determines needs
• Determines the functionality of an application and performs upgrades over time
• Maintains documentation to support software development policies, standards, and procedures
• Develops, analyzes, prioritizes, and organizes requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow
• Translates highly technical specifications into clear non-technical requirements
• Develops and documents features and user stories with acceptance criteria
• Assists team with preparation of cost estimates
• Implements best practices for scalability, supportability, ease of maintenance, and system performance
• Creates current and future state documentation related to existing interfaces
• Creates Interface Control Documents (ICD) documenting existing and future interfaces
• Develops, plans, and manages project tasks
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays