Job Description

The Rhode Island Department of Administration, Enterprise Technology Strategy and Services, Office of Information Technology (ETSS/OIT) is seeking a COBOL programmer to support COBOL programming requests, application interfaces, in addition, may be needed for administration support for the IBM iSeries Power 9 (AS400) and IBM mainframe systems (using VSE, MVS, and VM).

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING SUPPORT

IBM Power 9 I Series (AS400) Systems Programming (System/36 and Native Mode)

• Provide COBOL programming support; maintain and make updates on current applications. The standard is primarily native COBOL, but there may be instances of limited RPG residing in the systems.
• (Shared Responsibility): Develop interfaces between DLT and other agencies. Establish and support data transfers with ODBC, SFTP, GoAnywhere, Shared SharePoint files, IRS FIRE, QLIK, SMB, FTP, etc. Support legacy IVR (currently screen scraping technology) from the System/36 based system.
• Develop forms using XL Print Paris Software and FormDocs and perform associated programming requirements.
• Develop and maintain application documentation.
• Support application databases using DB2 (with multimember records) and SQL.
• Leverage and utilize Spell/400, Surveyor, X-Analysis
• (Shared Responsibility): Assist EOC operators with runtime errors to address programming issues.
• Configure, maintain, and document application security.
• Provide technical expertise to implement best practices.
• Assist in migration efforts to modernize the legacy applications.
• Generate reports in response to user requirements.
• Provide operational, status, and other reports as requested.

REQUIREMENTS

• Extensive experience in the following areas is required:

• COBOL
• CICS
• SQL Programming
• Application interfaces
• Database and database support
• AS400 and mainframe support for the technology listed above

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