Payroll System Developer

Responsibilities

• Analyze and document mainframe and payroll migrations procedures.
• Author functional specifications; review functional specifications with business owners for approval; review functional specifications with technical staff during transition to technical design and coding phases of the project.
• Work with technical job admins and support personnel to research problems to find and implement solutions.
• Perform software migrations into all required environments according to current agency migration procedures and standards in a timely manner.
• Migration steps include planning, review, execution, and quality assurance activities.
• Components to be migrated involve source code, object code, load modules, DBRMs, and copybooks.
• Actions performed upon migration are compiled, linked, and bound respective to each of the environments.
• Perform migration steps according to current agency procedures and standards and according to established schedules and plans.
• The Configuration Management staff provides the overall setup and migration of all RM component software changes into staging libraries.
• Processes include staging JCL, PROC, and Control Card coding changes, assigning tasks to tech Support, and communicating the task requirements to the responsible departments.
• Maintain Production procedures to set up JCL and communicate with Tech Support via e-mail.
• Add all new programs to Golden copies in all test environments.
• Support production migrations for changes to JCL and Procs.
• Reply to the e-mail if you migrated the change on the e-mail report.
• List the RM number associated with the migration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Experience compiling, linking and binding COBOL programs.
• Experience with Rational ClearQuest and ClearCase.
• Experience using TSO/ISPF.
• Proficiency with JCL.
• Strong understanding of standard system development life cycle methodologies.
• Familiarity with MS-Word and Excel.
• Knowledge of DB2, IMS DB/DC.
• Experience with PeopleSoft is a plus.
• Experience with UNIX is a plus.
• Experience working in Configuration Management with mainframe or midrange computer.

Education

Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or in a Technical/Business Discipline is required.