System Specialist IV

Job Title: Cobol/DB2 System Specialist IV
Location: Salem OR (Remote)
Duration: Long Term Contract

• Provide COBOL software development efforts related to CCAD initiatives.
• Provide JCL development related to mainframe work.
• Provide CICS development related to mainframe work.
• Provide coding to access DB2 DBMS.
• Conduct reverse engineering of current state systems.
• Create current state and future state process documentation.
• Use a variety of information gathering techniques (e.g. interviews facilitation diagrams) to gather define and document complex business data requirements from business teams.
• Identify areas for improvement in current systems.
• Conduct document and present impact analyses.
• Create and manage requirements.
• Create and support the creation of functional specifications for data models customizations extracts and reports.
• Create implementation documentation and support the implementation process.
• Develop design changes in the asset management software and development and testing environments and collaborate integration into the existing business production environment with the rest of the team.
• Plan and support data cleanup activities.
• Prepare test data implement and support test activities including the creation of test plans and test cases test enhancements and track results.
• Plan and support user acceptance testing.
• Coordinate with other team members to reach project milestones and deadlines.
• Engage and build strong working relationships with IT business partners.
• Conduct remote training (for business and technical audiences).
• Troubleshoot issues determine causes and provide options for fixing the issues.
• Experience with mainframe technologies like JCL CICS COBOL (mandatory)
• Ability to create software design documentation (mandatory)
• DB2 skills with SQL understanding (mandatory)
• Business analysis requirements gathering (desirable)
• Strong communication skills (desirable)
• Testing of design and development (desirable)
• Familiarity with data science tools such as Python
• Ability to work remotely
• Ability to complete work without direct supervision
• Familiarity with automating processes

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