Tandem COBOL Developer

Job Title: Tandem COBOL Developer

Duration: – Long Term Contract

Location: Rolling Meadows, IL

Responsibilities: –

Application Developers on Tandem platform will be responsible for developing code in support of health and insurance applications. Candidates will follow all components of the development life cycle and will be expected to work directly with other members of the development, project management and business teams. Candidates must demonstrate strong problem solving and analytical skills. In this position they will be expected to create technical specifications, build application code, test and implement strategic and complex applications. They will be required to work within prescribed development methodologies and standards. In addition, Application Developers will be expected to provide third call level production support for the suite of applications.

Skills and Experience

• 7 years of progressive experience in Information Technology

• 7 years of experience with large Tandem applications utilizing knowledge of Tandem Systems/Guardian, Pathway, TACL.

• 3 years of insurance or healthcare experience.

• 7 years of experience with Enscribe and SQL-MP/MX databases

• 7 years of Tandem COBOL development experience.

• Experience with change management, implementation planning and release management.

• Agile and Agile principles ensuring smoother/faster software lifecycles.

• Understanding and implementation of test-driven development.