COBOL Developer || Des Moines,IA || Okay with relocation
Tony Robert
Title : COBOL Developer:
Duration: 6 Month Contract to Hire
Location: Des Moines – Okay with relocation candidates
Top Required Technical Skills:
COBOL, Visual Basic, SQL, Btrive, DOS, MS Windows, and Informatica or ETL tool skills
"Nice to Have" Skills:
Actuarial knowledge
General accounting knowledge
LifePro experience desired
SQL experience desired
Business Initiatives/Project Candidate will be working on: Cobol programs from actuarial programs. They will be working in LifePro.
Current Methodology: Agile processing an SM from another area helps lead the Daily morning standups.
Team Size/Structure: Small Team
2 other Cobol Devs and 2 non Cobol Developers
Specific Industry/Company experience required: L&A (Life Pro is desired because that is the system they will be in daily)
Interview Process: 1 - 45 minute interview.
Job Description:
Under moderate supervision, the Sr. Applications Developer codes, tests and debugs programs, maintains and documents program code and procedures, and assists in the review and analysis of defined systems specifications.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Codes and prepares test data.
• Codes, tests, and debugs programs.
• Evaluates and modifies existing programs.
• Documents procedures used for completed programs.
• Provides weekly status reports on all completed, on-going and future projects in order to keep management updated on progress.
• Interfaces with users to develop procedures.
• Analyzes system solutions.
• Performs on-call responsibilities.
• Performs other related work as assigned.
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:
Associate’s degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; and 4 or more years of related experience and/or training in a coding, testing and debugging environment; or equivalent combination of education and/or experience. In addition, must have a minimum of 1 year of application development (integration) experience in the investments/finance background.