Beacon Technologies is seeking a COBOL Mainframe Programmer V for our client partner. Staff supplementation – Application system development and support activities. Assignment in a state-wide mainframe COBOL/CICS/DB2 environment supporting the State Unemployment Insurance systems. This position will assist applications development staff support mainframe COBOL/CICS, and DB2 systems. Candidates must have proven experience and understanding of the full system development life cycle of applications development. DB2, VSAM, and CICS mainframe application experience and proficiency in COBOL development of code with very strong analytical skills ARE REQUIRED. Successful candidates must also have an excellent understanding of problem resolution and testing. These positions will function as part of the mainframe applications development support team and will get their direction from lead workers within the unit. The successful candidates must have excellent oral and written communications skills, as well as excellent people skills. Preference will be given to qualified candidates with business knowledge of Wisconsin's unemployment insurance program and familiarity with State of Wisconsin application systems, procedures, and development standards.

Hardware/Software Environment:

• FTP to Mainframe, MVS, COBOL/DB2/CICS, SAS, SQL, SPUFI, FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, Visio and JCL.

Qualifications & Years Desired:

• Experience in Technical Writing and Documentation 10
• Excellent oral and written communication skills 10
• Analytical/problem solving skills 10
• Application Development and Support of CICS/DB2/COBOL/JCL
• Mainframe Systems: Using Changeman, CNTL-M or the like 10
• Web and client-server application development experience, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, implementation, and support
• Including Ability to identify and Create Test Data, Creating and Modifying Files and JCL in order to test the accuracy of System Modifications 10
• Knowledge of Electronic Document Management, BPM, Workflow, and Scan/Capture software using products such as eDocs and Kofax Total Agility
• Analysis and Design of Mainframe Applications 8
• Evaluate and recommend programming languages, design tools and applications
• Scripting – Winbatch, VBScript, AutoIT, PowerShell, DOS Batch, etc.
• MS Office Products 2
• Microsoft AD Administration Tools
• Active Directory Tools
• MS Office 2010/O365
• Software Packaging – Admin Studio, etc.
• Project (MS) 2
• Excel (MS) 8
• Word (MS) 8
• Outlook (MS) 8
• MS Windows 7/Windows 10 – System Configuration/Upgrade
• Change management
• Understanding of project management methodologies and experience with 'agile'
• Project Management
• Data modeling
• MVVM (Model View View Model)
• Structured Analysis and Design of Web and Client-Server applications for both transactional and batch applications 8
• WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
• 3rd Level IT Problem Resolution
• Desktop Management Systems (LANDesk/SCCM-Patching/Software Deployment, etc.)
• Active Directory
• Access
• Data flow and structure modeling
• Experience in data warehouse design and development
• Experience in requirements gathering for data warehouse
• Data warehouse performance tuning
• Data warehousing
• DB2 8
• Stored procedures and triggers 4
• Experience in extract, transform, and load coding using Informatica
• Oracle 4
• Oracle SQL tuning
• SQL Client tools
• SQL Server
• Logical Database Design

About Beacon Technologies

Are you looking to advance your career in information technology? Beacon Technologies offers career advancement opportunities, extensive training, and excellent benefits including paying for health and dental premiums for salaried employees. In addition to providing interesting opportunities, Beacon Technologies provides that old fashioned, personal touch, so you feel like a part of the Beacon team.

Beacon Technologies, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer with a functioning Affirmative Action Plan. It is the policy of Beacon Technologies, Inc. to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, ethnicity, ancestry, disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Beacon Technologies, Inc. prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.