Cobol Developer Hybrid InterviewDesignated Work Location: 40 North Pearl, Albany NY Anticipated Duration of the Engagement: 14 monthsMandatory Qualifications:Level III- More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects.2 or more years in a leadership role as a DeveloperMore than Seven (7) years of experience working directly with COBOL 74 and/or 85 programming on mainframes.Five or more years of experience with system analysis and design, programming and unit and integrated testing on mainframesDesirable Qualifications:Seven or more years of experience with Cobol routines, procedures, TIP screens, ECL, batch jobs.Five or more years of experience monitoring production work and performing error diagnostic/debugging activities in a mainframe environmentExperience creating and maintaining documentation related to designing, programming, performing code walk-throughs and testing in a mainframe environmentExperience in reviewing, translating and extracting business rules and process logic from COBOL code in a mainframe environmentFive or more years of experience with RDMS and DMS database structures, data dictionaries and source codeFive or more years of experience working in information technology within a government setting.Five or more years of experience supporting Child Support Management System.Duties/Responsibilities:Daily activities as a Cobol Programmer will include, but are not limited to:Review production systems to understand major technical components and relate them to business areas;Use Cobol to analyze routines, procedures, TIP screens, ECL, batch jobs and FTPs which make up discrete parts of the systems;Analyze DMS and RDMS database structures, data dictionaries and source code for discrepancies or inaccuracies;Document system specifications and solutions to facilitate knowledge transfer;Monitor and perform diagnostic/debugging activities on the mainframe;Coordinate project activities among other team members, users, and/or requestors;Act in advocacy role as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in all relevant phases of the IES Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC); Work closely with Architects and others on the applications development team to refine solution design;Report status of current tasks and outstanding issues to supervisor and project leads;