Job Description

Job Description

Primary Work Location: Blythewood, SC 29016 (Initially 100% on-site for company’s orientation and system familiarization. Hybrid is possible at company’s discretion.)

Duration: 12 months contract (with possible extension)Scope of the project

• Company employs a multi-tiered architecture in its core business systems. The Business application tier utilizes MicroFocus Visual COBOL running under IIS on MS Windows 2022 servers.
• This assignment will support development of new business functions and troubleshooting, modification, and enhancement of existing functions in this environment within the existing company application framework. Projects may include business logic supporting on-line systems, batch programming, data extraction, and reports involving all company business areas.
• This engineer will work closely and will be involved with both the UI tiers which are MS .NET applications (VB.NET, C#.NET) and the database tiers in both SQL and ORACLE. production trouble shooting support will be expected so some level of production support experience is required.
• This contractor will be expected to work with minimal supervision, will be in direct contact with business area specialists, develop technical approaches and designs, code, test, and support these functions. Communications skills must be excellent.

Daily Duties / Responsibilities

• Analyze the company Phoenix II, Web Service, and batch business applications
• Take the lead in analyzing and trouble-shooting assigned system problems
• Propose solutions
• Code, test, promote, and interact with impacted users ensuring that solution meets requirements.
• Provide daily and weekly status to the development manager.

Required Skills (rank in order of Importance)

• COBOL development with MICROFOCUS Visual COBOL using Visual Studio 2019/2022 in Windows Server 2022 under IIS.
• MICROFOCUS Visual COBOL V7, V9, or higher strongly preferred
• Accessing Oracle and MS SQL Server enterprise databases from within the programming (COBOL) platform.
• Crafting SQL statements to support required system functionality.

Preferred Skills (rank in order of Importance)

• Visual Studio 2019 and higher – Debugging
• IIS configuration/setup
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server
• Microsoft C# .NET
• Application programming against RDBMS (Oracle, SQL).
• SQL for Oracle DB.

Required Education

• Prefer Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology related discipline with 8 years of experience or minimum 10 years related experience.

Required Certifications

• Not required but MS technical certifications will be factored in the selection process.
• Microfocus Certifications are a significant advantage

About US Tech Solutions:

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US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Recruiter Details:

Name: Nil

Email: nil@ustechsolutionsinc.com

Internal Id: 25-52949

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