Description
Cobol Developer
Initially 6 months daily rate contract
Dublin City Center (Hybrid – 2 days per week onsite)
The successful candidate will:
- Be an experienced developer/analyst who can act on own initiative, is a self-starter with a positive outlook and driven to improve skills.
- Have strong knowledge / experience of the following:
- Microfocus COBOL
- Micro Focus Enterprise Edition 6.0
- Visual Studio 2008 & 2010
- SQL Server 2008 R2
- JCL
- C#
- ASP.NET
- Powershell
- Subversion
- TeamCity
- IIS.
- Have strong planning skills and organising of own work and can deliver formal plans and accurate estimates for own work with set targets.
- Be able to work with colleagues and clients to develop and agree requirements and apply various analysis and modelling techniques to the information gathering process, e.g. AGILE, modelling, prototyping, etc.
- Be able to specify the logical information flows, processes, data objects and dialogues for a system that will meet the requirements.
- Have Strong analysis and problem solving (Critical Thinking) skills.
- Have proven experience of designing, constructing, modifying, testing and documenting COBOL.NET changes to deliver a quality product.
- Have an awareness and be able to take into account any limitations of both technical and non-technical features of the target implementation environment.
- Skills to test all work to ensure no problems are encountered after go-live.
- Have an awareness of the need for and means of achieving quality in all tasks undertaken.
- Have a deep understanding of the Life Assurance industry and its products.
- Document all work to the required standard.
- Works well in a team and carries out all required reporting procedures
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.