
Senior Application Designer
HJ Staffing
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sacramento • California • United States
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Tech Stack
About the role
- Provide expert support for COBOL mainframe environments and design changes to legacy modules.
- Define and develop highly complex system requirements, assessing hardware limitations and designing input/output processes for maximum compatibility.
- Act as the bridge between application architects and developers to ensure design requirements are accurate and aligned with client goals.
- Direct the analysis and resolution of business problems, provide quality control for project deliverables, and offer mentorship to junior personnel.
- Design, install, and modify operating systems, utility software, and databases to meet specific business unit needs.
- Review literature, patents, and current practices to recommend new industry technologies to leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of applications development experience with at least 3 years specifically in COBOL/MVS/JCL/IBM mainframe environments.
- At least 1 year of experience exposing CICS and COBOL programs as web services via CICS Transaction Server (CTS).
- Hands-on experience with CICS, TSO, CHANGEMAN, SQL, DB2, Abend-Aid, MainView, and Xpediter CICS.
- Comprehensive knowledge of all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle and advanced principles of design, testing, and debugging.
- Experience with healthcare claims, payer, Medicaid, or Medicare systems is highly preferred.
- A strong background in performing cost analysis for vendor products and customizing complex purchased applications.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
COBOLMVSJCLCICSTSOCHANGEMANSQLDB2Abend-AidMainView
Soft Skills
mentorshipquality controlproblem analysiscommunicationcollaboration