SR Legacy System Developer

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Job description

Overview:
Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 32 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced SR Legacy System Developer to be a key resource on a technical services team.

Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.

Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law. Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background check

Allied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.

Responsibilities:
The Financial Systems Team at the client is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Developer to join our Information Technology team. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining applications contributing to the Statewide Financial Systems team under the guidance of the Fiscal Management division.

The primary responsibility for this role is to develop and implement advanced solutions in alignment with client's standards, guidelines, and design documentation. The candidate will perform coding, testing, debugging, and provide high-quality solutions for large-scale enterprise systems.

The successful candidate will collaborate with both technical and non-technical staff to ensure seamless coordination of changes prepare test data, troubleshoot issues, and ensure systems meet availability and performance requirements. Strong technical proficiency and problem-solving skills are essential for this role.

Client will require the Candidate to work on the following initiatives and will perform advanced analysis/programming tasks such as:

Participating in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle, including design, software development and code review.

Performing extensive code reviews and analysis.

Writing reports on code analysis to determine if industry standards and best practices are being followed; provide analysis to address found short comings.

Providing guidance and knowledge sharing to existing development staff.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:
Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience

5

Required

Experience making code changes in accordance with standards, guidelines, and design documents provided.

5

Required

Experience coordinating the testing, debugging, and preparing of test data and interacting with technical and non-technical staff in the coordination of changes

5

Required

Professional experience in software development building production software systems

5

Required

Experience with IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS

5

Required

Experience with IBM DB2 for z/OS

5

Required

Experience with MVS/JCL

5

Required

Experience with data integration and data quality

5

Required

Experience with Software AG's NATURAL

5

Required

Experience with highly complex application security requirements

2

Required

Experience with any of the Texas client's Statewide Financial Systems: USAS, USPS, SPRS, TINS, HRIS and SPA

2

Required

Experience with Agile development experience with Scrum, Kanban, Jira, and Confluence

2

Required

Proficient with the Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, TEAMS, Microsoft Project, Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint

5

Preferred

Experience with CICS Web Services

5

Preferred

Experience with CONTROL-M for z/OS

5

Preferred

Public sector experience (Federal, State or Local Government)

5

Preferred

Experience designing and implementing secure RESTful web services

5

Preferred

Experience with: code reviews and in-depth code analysis and completing system documentation

2

Preferred

Experience in developing and implementing containerized web applications in cloud with high proficiency in one or more languages from our stack (REACT JS, Node JS , Python,JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS etc.)

2

Preferred

Hands-on experience in Core AWS Services like CloudFront, EC2, CloudFormation, Lamda, S3, Route53, AWS CDK,SNS & SQS

2

Preferred

Experience building apps using Python, React JS, NodeJS, webservices, writing RESTFul interfaces

2

Preferred

Experience designing and implementing secure RESTful web services

1

Preferred

Experience designing and building Microservices

1

Preferred

Experience with Agile teams that have iteratively and incrementally delivered software while practicing code review

1

Preferred

Experience with Java programming language

1

Preferred

Experience with coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer to junior level software developers and other personnel as required

1

Preferred

Experience with BMC Code Pipeline (formerly Compuware ISPW)

1

Preferred

Knowledge of Topaz

1

Preferred

Knowledge of IDz, Eclipse for Mainframe

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