Senior COBOL Systems Analyst (10+ years) to assist in the detailed analysis, development, testing and maintenance of solutions in support of departmental transformation and modernization initiatives 

Our Public Sector Client requires a Senior COBOL Systems Analyst (10+ years) to assist in the detailed analysis, development, testing and maintenance of solutions in support of departmental transformation and modernization intiatives. 

Responsibilities to include:

• Design, develop and maintain interfaces between new and existing systems using COBOL and DB2.
• Design and document, in detail, all system components and their interfaces.
• Assist in the analysis of requirements, processes and data towards developing and implementing solutions which address business and technical needs.
• Design and document detailed specifications based on business requirements for use by Java and/or COBOL developers.
• Design data structures and files, sub-systems and modules, programs (online and batch), and production monitoring procedures, testing strategy and systems.
• Document unit, regression, integration, end to end, and performance testing as required.

Must Haves:

• 10+ years experience as a Systems Analyst 
• 10+ years within the last 15 years in COBOL and/or CICS development 
• 4+ years experience within the last 10 years working on IBM Mainframe 

Nice to Haves;

• 8+ years experience working with the following tools: TSO, JCL, MQ Series, SQL, Expediter, Strobe, Workbench SDFII