Lead COBOL Developer

Title: Lead COBOL Developer
Location: Albany, NY (Need someone from NY, NJ or CT state)
Job Type: 18 Months

Only H1B with Passport No.

Mandatory Qualifications:
* Level III- More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects with 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Developer.
* More than seven (7) years of experience in application development and support of legacy applications utilizing multiple languages including COBOL-74 and COBOL-85.
* Five (5) or more years of experience with system analysis and design, programming and unit and integrated testing.

Responsibilities:
– Review production systems to understand major technical components and relate them to business areas.
– Develop applications based on technical requirements, design & architecture principles & standards.
– Use tools to analyze and extract business rules from legacy code.
– Produce work products and applications that reflect and ensure system design and delivery are in line with business needs and project plan. • Document system specifications and solutions to facilitate knowledge transfer.
– Monitor and perform diagnostic/debugging activities.
– Coordinate project activities among other team members, users, and/or requestors.
– Act in advocacy role as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in all relevant phases of the IES Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
– Work closely with Architects and others on the applications development team to refine solution design.
– Report status of current tasks and outstanding issues to supervisor and project leads.