Cobol Systems Developer

Cobol Systems Developer /13873
Address : 44 Holland Ave Albany New York 12208 United States

Description:
Support/Enhance IDMS/ADS based billing applications which incorporate multi-system data feeds to bill a variety of payers including Medicaid, Medicare & Third-Party Health Insurance (TPHI) for services rendered. This position will be primary support for several legacy systems critical to the day-to-day operations of the Office of Mental Healths (OMH) Human Resources and Finance departments.
Day to day tasks include:
Daily Tasks will include but are not limited to the following:
Execute full software development life cycle (SDLC)
Use IBM COBOL, JCL, CA-IDMS, CA-ADS to develop/maintain batch/online applications in an IBM z/OS environment. Perform analysis, design, coding, and testing of changes based on State/Federal mandates or requests from the OMH State Operations Finance Group.
Support billing of Medicare, Medicaid, Third Party Health Insurance (TPHI), & individuals (private parties). Monitor batch production jobs, analyze results, and address any aborts/system failures as needed. Diagnose and debug production issues reported via ITSM.
Prepare database scripts for the purpose of creating/modifying Oracle tables, packages, stored procedures, indexes, constraints, triggers, etc .
Maintain/support multiple batch-based data feeds/exchanges between Oracle and IDMS environments.
Maintain/support encryption of mainframe data as needed using ASPG MegaCryption.
Work with members of the Billing unit, DBA unit, and the office for Information Technology Services to migrate batch and online application changes to the QA and Production platforms following standard migration procedures.
Work with business owners, users, and technical support staff to identify changes that are needed and the solution for implementing them.
Mentor and assist other programmers, both state and consultant, providing guidance for debugging, troubleshooting, securing and deploying applications, data access, data communications and system architecture configurations.
Report status of current tasks and outstanding issues to supervisor.
Mandatory Qualifications:
Expert 84+ Months
Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.
Secondary Qualifications:
84 Months Experience developing and maintaining mainframe batch programs using IBM COBOL to add, modify, process data in a mainframe database management system such as CA-IDMS
84 Months Experience with developing/ maintaining a billing system(s) that bills Medicare, Medicaid, & commercial insurance for services rendered
84 Months Experience working with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Health Insurance transactions. This includes but is not limited to the 837& 835 transactions
84 Months Experience with IBM JCL utilizing utilities such as IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14, SORT, etc.
60 months Experience working with PHI and HIPAA in a complex health related organization.
12 months Experience encrypting data with mainframe ASPG MegaCryption in an IBM zOS environment.
36 months Experience with ORACLE performing functions such as writing complex queries, creating packages, stored procedures, functions, & tables.

Thanks & Regards

Preeti Pandey
Sr. Technical Recruiter
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