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About the Role

Allied Consultants, Inc is seeking an experienced Natural/COBOL Developer with NASWA SIDES experience to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team. We value our consultants and are committed to providing an exceptional experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform advanced automated systems development work to implement the four standardized NASWA SIDES exchanges: Additional Fact-Finding, Determinations, Monetary Charges, and Benefit Charges.
• Responsible for activities during all phases of the system development life cycle including external customer service, analyzing and documenting requirements, coding, testing, and resolving software, data, hardware, and reporting problems.
• Troubleshoot system issues for internal and external clients.
• Develop and test COBOL, Natural, and JCL Applications to meet design specifications.
• Document current processes, create and review project specification modifications, and create test cases for testing new and modified programs.
• Analyze, document, design, and develop logical, structured programs and systems appropriate to customer needs that may be maintained by others.
• Test applications in accordance with agency standards.
• Ensure adherence to programming documentation and procedural standards, and management goals and objectives.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support the NASWA SIDES initiatives.
• Integrate incoming and outgoing NASWA SIDES exchange data streams into the existing core legacy processing architecture.
• Execute a dedicated analysis phase for each of the four SIDES Exchanges (Additional Fact-Finding, Determinations, Monetary Charges, and Benefit Charges).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 8 years of advanced proficiency in writing, testing, and debugging COBOL, Natural, and JCL applications within a large-scale mainframe environment.
• 8 years of hands-on experience analyzing, modifying, and optimizing DB2 tables, schemas, and relational databases to integrate new data structures into existing systems.
• 8 years of knowledge of scripting and batch processing in legacy and current technology to modify online user screens (CICS/Map environments), runtime routines, and complex background batch processing jobs.
• 8 years of knowledge of Web API Development, including SOAP, REST, XML, and JSON, with specific experience mapping and parsing external web-service data streams into legacy mainframe backend processing.
• 8 years of experience implementing secure user authentication and authorization protocols using enterprise frameworks such as LDAP, SAML, or OIDC.
• 8 years of experience analyzing existing legacy routines and batch processing workflows to integrate new functional elements and modify underlying DB2 database tables.
• 8 years of knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles, practices, and techniques of application programming and software design.
• 8 years of ability to accurately test software applications using a data-driven development approach.
• 8 years of skill in solving problems; in scheduling, testing, installing, and implementing programs; and in troubleshooting computer software systems.
• 8 years of expertise in analyzing undocumented or highly customized legacy code routines to perform precise gap analysis and impact mapping.
• 2 years of prior experience specifically implementing or maintaining NASWA SIDES (State Information Data Exchange System) exchanges and technical specifications.
• 3 years of strong functional knowledge of UI program workflows, specifically involving Additional Fact-Finding (ADF), Determinations and Decisions (DD), Monetary/Potential Charges (MPC), and Benefit Charges (BC).
• 2 years of experience with SDLC tools – Visio, ALM Octane.
• 3 years of experience handling and securing sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) within a state or federal agency framework.
• 3 years of experience with automating identity management services to include user authentication and authorization using an authentication framework, using Azure, Okta, LDAP, Entra.

Skills

• COBOL
• Natural
• JCL
• DB2
• Scripting
• Batch processing
• CICS/Map environments
• Web API Development
• SOAP
• REST
• XML
• JSON
• LDAP
• SAML
• OIDC
• SDLC
• Data-driven development
• Problem solving
• Software testing
• Software installation
• Program implementation
• Troubleshooting
• Legacy code analysis
• Gap analysis
• Impact mapping
• NASWA SIDES
• Personally Identifiable Information (PII) handling
• Identity management automation
• Azure
• Okta
• Entra

Location

• Austin

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 8 years
• 2 years
• 3 years

Benefits

• Medical insurance (with employer cost sharing)
• Life insurance
• A 401(K) plan with company match
• Flexible spending through a cafeteria plan

About the Company

• Allied Consultants, Inc is a proudly Austin based firm with over 34 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies.

Equal Opportunity

• Allied Consultants is a proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.