TQUKI0374_4354 - VAX COBOL Lead Sr Programmer

Job Responsibilities -

  • Collaborate with the client, business, and user team for requirement discussions.
  • Engage in knowledge acquisition, technical design, and estimation for fixes and enhancements.
  • Actively participate in both functional and technical discussions with customer SMEs and tech leads.
  • Coordinate work allocation and sync with the offshore development and QA team.
  • Engage with customer business users for project prioritization and design discussions.
  • Collaborate with the client user team to prioritize bug defects and changes.
  • Reproduce the defects reported by the client.
  • Expected to foster good team collaboration among other leads and BAS.
  • Coordinate with the customer help desk to address complete infrastructure-related tasks and queries for both onsite and offshore teams.
  • Work with the customer server administration team to manage implementation and change control tasks.
  • Partner with developers to conduct root cause analysis and preliminary problem diagnosis.
  • Technically lead the VAXVMS development team.
  • Promptly report to onsite and offshore managers.
  • Promptly report to customer stakeholders.
  • Educate the team to ensure that the nature of defects and bugs is not repeated.
  • Take full ownership of the technical landscape of the application during knowledge acquisition.
  • Build a knowledge repository to assist the development and QA team in understanding business requirements.
  • Define life cycle process templates and checklists.
  • Conduct group design reviews with the customer team.
  • Conduct group code reviews with the customer and offshore team.
  • Reach out to the larger team for cross-functional knowledge sharing, training, and review.
  • Engage with any customer team for resolution and clarification.


Candidate should have -

  • 10 years of experience in COBOL programming and VAXVMS development
  • Strong COBOL programming skills
  • Extensive experience with VAXVMS operating system
  • Familiarity with VAX COBOL compiler and related utilities
  • Experience with VAXVMS file systems and database management
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues with COBOL applications and VAXVMS systems
  • Provide technical support to end users
  • Develop, maintain, and enhance COBOL programs and applications running on VAXVMS
  • Write tests and debug COBOL code according to specifications
  • Develop and document code according to company standards
  • Proficient in the VAXVMS operating system and its associated tools
  • Familiar with VAX COBOL compiler and related utilities
  • Experience with VAXVMS file systems and database management
  • Experience with the ICMS tool and with RDB Relational Database


Preferred Skills -

  • Experience with specific VAXVMS applications or industries
  • Experience with other legacy technologies
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies


Mandatory Skills -

Grafana, Angular, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, IIS Server, Java, JavaScript, JBoss, Jenkins, Jira Service Desk, Kafka, Kibana, Knowledge Management, Kubernetes, AppDynamics, major incident management, microservices, MongoDB, MS SQL Server, MSBI-SSRS, MySQL, AS/400, ASP.NET, PostgreSQL, Power BI, problem management, Python, React, ServiceNow ITSM, shell scripting, Splunk, Azure Cosmos DB, Spring Boot, Azure DevOps, Tomcat (Apache), VB.NET, WebSphere, Windows Server, Bash/Shell scripting, BMC Control-M, BMC Helix ITSM, Nginx, DB2-DB Administration, Prometheus, ServiceNow (Event Management), C, C#, C++, Flexcube technical PL/SQL, .NET Framework, Cassandra, ERP (JDA/PoS/PLM/Infor LN/JDE/Peoplesoft) testing, mainframe - Cobol/JCL, ServiceNow (ITOM ITSM and other) functional testing, Cognos Analytics, AWS DevOps Services, Oracle DB Administration, mainframe Autosys, Docker, Dynatrace, Elasticsearch, MS Excel, Unix/Linux scripting, Cognos Reporting, Crystal Reports

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