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Top Skills & Years of Experience:

• Ability to write detailed technical design documents and develop COBOL applications. 

• Must be proficient and experienced at writing and modifying system documentation.

• Clear communication skills and ability to lead meetings and follow-up.

• Validate test data and test results.

Candidates must be local at time of submission. Hiring manager is not currently interested in candidates who will need to relocate to accept an offer. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION. Must be able to work onsite in the office 2x a week (Tues/Weds) for hybrid model. Office is located in Dimondale, Michigan.

Interview Process: Virtual Interview via MS Teams with possible onsite 2nd round interviews. Candidates submitted must be willing to come onsite for a face-to-face meeting if requested. A screenshot photo of the candidate will be required for any interviews as well as a vendor present at the beginning of the virtual interview to validate the candidate. 

Position Description:
This position will provide maintenance and support for mainframe systems. The position will provide the necessary programming skills using mainframe tools to maintain and support legacy systems. This position may also be involved in testing, implementation, and support.  The employee performs a complete range of assignments including, but not
limited to, assisting in data gathering, queries, reporting from the legacy system, interpretation of legacy code and documentation for Treasury Projects. This individual will provide technical support to other team members and evaluate new development tools and agency systems. 
 Maintain and update technical and managerial skills.
 Share news and knowledge with unit staff.
 Maintain and develop knowledge and skills in technical management, including team building, teamwork and career development.
 Manage or serve on special projects or evaluation committees as assigned.
 Assist Senior Management in establishing and ensuring a professional workplace environment.
 Must be able to perform secure coding and release management.
 Must be able to perform development on internal and external applications.
 Must be able to successfully work independently.
 Must be proficient and experienced at writing and modifying system documentation.
 Provide clear communication both verbally and in writing.
 Must be able to clearly explain technical information to both technical and non-technical individuals.    
 Must be able to assist in the gathering of requirements (traditional waterfall and agile) for all IT solutions and beable to develop the application requested from the requirements.
 Validate and finalize Local Change Board and Enterprise Change Board documents.
 Ensure proper change management for all requested fixes to production systems.
 Ensure proper change management for all requested changes to system designs and system architecture standards are documented.
 Validate test data and test results.
 Develop and monitor defect tracking logs and facilitate problem resolution.
Skills: 
Ability to lead meetings. Clear Communication, follow-up, ability to write detailed technical design documents and develop Cobol applications.
Additional highly desired skills/experience: Xgen, Algol, Unisys, Bl products, Programmer’s Workbench, Cande, DMSII,COMS, WFL, ERGO.
Must have experience and knowledge of project/work estimation and ability to provide estimates for when their part of the work will be done, knows data capture software, etc.