*COBOL Developer**100% Remote**9+ Month Contract**W2**Description:*Required Languages COBOL JCL/PROCs CICS SQLIT software development in COBOL and associated languages. At Ameritas, our mission is Fulfilling Life. We do that in many ways, but especially by helping people invest in themselves by offering trusted financial products and advice. Because we believe everyone should be happy, healthy, and financially secure, we work hard to provide trusted financial products and valued guidance, including individual life and disability insurance, employee benefits, retirement planning, investments, and wealth management services. This position will provide development and integration support to ensure business system applications deliver measurable value to the business. Provide support for specialized and ad hoc requests for research, technical information and customized or one-off solutions. This professional delivers to a future view of technical solutions and business process, managed by a delivery plan integrated with other IT and business areas, as well as to a roadmap that makes progress toward a future state. This profession ensures the ongoing health of the business systems, measured by agreed level of services. This role is responsible for designing, creating, integrating, and deploying an aggregation of business system applications that cooperate to deliver overarching functionality of technology. That responsibility includes the entire software lifecycle, from ideation through end-of-life, for all applications that deliver value within business capabilities.*Skills:*mainframe cobol, cics, cobol*Top Skills Details:*mainframe cobol,cics*Additional Skills & Qualifications:*Relational Datacom Easytrieve CICS web services CA Endevor Compuware Expediter RDz or Topaz Editor Compuware Abend-AID Compuware File-AID IBM Z/OS Jira Remedy StrobeSystems analysis, design, development, integration, maintenance, and supportCodes application using a disciplined development processIntegrates solutions with other applications and platformsProduces and analyzes data extracts and reports from the systemDevelops, executes, and documents test plansLead deployment of new modules applies upgrades and fixes to the production environment -- ensures production readiness; move to libraries, complete forms, completing version control documentsDocuments functions and changes to new or modified modules, test activities/ results and other areas such as error handling and backup recovery proceduresProvides technical and system knowledge and guidance to team membersSupports major projects that span a broad range of applications -- acts as the IT lead and subject matter expert by providing technical direction to othersContributes to solutioning efforts with team, application owners, architects, business analysts and clientsEvaluates new application packages and tools; research best practices and recommends solutionsIdentifies technical requirements, creates technical design specificationsCreates technical sizing for requirements for small to large projects -- gains appropriate acceptanceCommunicates effectively with members of IT and the business areas in verbal and written formsCreate technical designs from business requirements and functional specificationsServe as a development lead on projects, being the focal point for all development efforts on a projectWork effectively in unfamiliar programs, processes, and applications What you bring5--7 years of application programming and analysis experienceProven knowledge of surrounding information systems and application ar*Experience Level:*Expert Level About TEKsystems: We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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