Job Description
Overview:
The Program:
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
About Us:
It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other status protected by applicable law. LI-KC1
Edgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking a COBOL Professional to provide support to a federal customer.
The Program:
- The Client’s service is responsible for exchanging payroll data with the DFAS, resulting in a payroll amount of approximately two-billion-dollars annually.
- The Department’s Payroll function is outsourced to the DFAS for the actual payroll calculation(s), creation of the employee’s Leave and Earnings Statement (LES), and other tax documents.
- The DPP service is used to sort, combine, and process the required Human Resource information, Time and Attendance information and other applicable information for the DFAS.
- The data processing programs are written in COBOL and run in a batch mode.
- DPP also utilizes several utility programs that 14 were developed with Job Control Language (JCL) for sorting, backups, restores, etc.
- The batch applications communicate with the Corporate Human Resource Information System, DOEInfo and ATAAPS database management systems through SQLNet/Oracle and Secure File Transfer utilities.
- Payroll processing involves daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual processes.
- There are approximately 52 jobs included in the payroll processing, which involves indexed sequential access method (ISAM)-based file processing.
- DPP utilizes Microsoft Windows application-based operating system, Oracle Databases, integrated development environment, batch scheduling, file editing, secure file transfer and data comparison software.
Responsibilities:
- Participates in and conducts development activities.
- Prepares test plans for unit testing, regression testing, system and production parallel testing.
- Conducts technical walkthroughs with all stakeholders.
- Supports system testing activities and resolves any technical issues.
- Codes and tests high priority and critical changes utilizing Microfocus COBOL, JCL, and ISAM.
- Handles change requests for implementing changes and owning them until closure.
- Provides emergency bug fixes to production issues and resolves client research requests.
- Provides production support by fixing batch process abnormal ends within strict timeframes.
- Meets with project managers to provide daily or weekly project statuses.
- Works with cyber security teams to ensure system software is patched, supported and system meets security compliance requirements.
Qualifications:
- U.S. Citizenship is required per Contract to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy Clearance.
- Specialized experience includes working with Microfocus COBOL, JCL, ISAM, Utilities and Copybooks to support mission critical systems.
- Strong working knowledge in job scheduling software (Vanzant GECS), File Transfer protocols (SFTP, SSH), modifying ISAM datasets (Ultra Edit, FileSeek) Human Capital / Financial Systems.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate orally and in writing and a positive attitude while working in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to problem solve, code, test, and deploy application fixes in a fast-paced environment.
About Us:
Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2024.
It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other status protected by applicable law. LI-KC1