Cobol Developer

Cobol Developer
12 month contract
Dublin - mainly remote but need to be based in Ireland so you can attend office time to time
400 per day

• Produce estimates for requirements where required.
• Code new developments and/or enhancements in line with standards.
• Create functional design specifications and/or user stories.
• Adhere to code quality, data, and unit testing standards.
• Identify and implement integration tests and automation tests as necessary.
• Participation in peer reviews as required.
• Supervise and coach junior resources and ensure knowledge transfer to other colleagues actively takes place.
• Provide system test support when code is migrated to System Test (including SIR resolution).
• Assist with test and live releases.
• Develop familiarity with processes in the overall domain of the team's area of work.
• Where technical challenges or blocks are identified within the team, ensure that team leads are made aware in a timely manner to support the management and triaging of delays or risks to the project.
• Work with project stakeholders as required.
• Ensure that any assigned tasks in development and planning tools related to project development tasks are updated ie
• Updates to Jira requirements, work time logs, etc. for tracking purposes.
• Collaborate with testers, ensuring that information is shared and testers are kept up to date on expected functionality and timelines.
• Perform root cause analysis of issues and organise live incident tickets or bug tracking.
• Provide/propose fixes, as required, to resolve live issues.

About you:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience working in standards driven environments.
• Knowledge/experience of project delivery methodologies, application development life cycle, waterfall development model, agile development model and hybrid development model.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to work with stakeholders in order to work through business requirements.
• Experience working effectively alongside application development and technical colleagues, testers, support teams and all levels of management.
• Experience working with data using relational databases such as SQL and Ingres, and NoSQL frameworks such as Hadoop.
• Familiarity with techniques for parsing and manipulating structured data formats, RDBMS, XML, JSON, text files, etc