SENIOR (MAINFRAME) PROGRAMMER ANALYST IT PROGRAMMER ANALYST II (FULL-TIME CONTRACTUAL)

About the Role

The main purpose of this full-time contractual position is to function as a Programmer Analyst, designing, developing, testing, implementing, and maintaining applications and programming solutions for the MMIS-II system. This position will also use generally accepted computer programming languages and developmental tools, consulting with users to plan, develop, evaluate, and revise the system.

Minimum Qualifications

Five years of experience, one year of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining applications systems and programs using generally accepted computer programming languages or other developmental tools and an additional four years of experience converting data from project specifications by writing program code using generally accepted computer programming languages or other developmental tools.

Substitutions:

• Six credit hours of coursework in application analysis and programming using generally accepted computer programming languages or other developmental tools may substitute for six months of the required experience.
• Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate and eighteen months of experience converting data from project specifications by writing program code using generally accepted computer programming languages or other developmental tools may substitute for the additional four years of the required experience.
• Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate and fifteen credit hours from an accredited college or university in systems analysis and application programming using generally accepted computer programming languages or other developmental tools may substitute for the additional four years of the required experience.
• Experience in one of the following areas: operating computers, scheduling, controlling input and output or maintaining backups or data storage, processing data on computers, evaluating, implementing and maintaining hardware and software, on a year-for-year basis may substitute for a high school education.
• Possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Information Technology, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or other information technology related field and one year of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining applications systems and programs using generally accepted computer programming languages or other developmental tools may substitute for the required experience.
• U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in Computer Systems Programming classifications or Computer Systems Programming specialty codes in the Information Technology field of work on a year-for-year basis may substitute for the required experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting the Maryland Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) or another State's MMIS
• Experience in IBM z/OS mainframe application development and support
• Experience and proficiency in COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM, ISPF and TSO
• Experience with debugging and performance tools such as Xpeditor, File-AID and QMF
• Experience with Information Builders FOCUS

Special Requirements

Employees in this classification may be subject to call-in 24 hours a day and, therefore, may be required to provide the employing agency with a telephone number where the employee can be reached.

Benefits

Contractual employees who work for an agency covered under the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program, have a current employment contract and work 30 or more hours a week (or on average 130 hours per month) may be eligible for subsidized health benefits coverage for themselves and their dependents. As a contractual employee, you will be responsible for paying 25% of the premiums for your medical and prescription coverage, including any eligible dependents you have enrolled. The State of Maryland will subsidize the remaining 75% of the cost for these benefits. You can also elect to enroll in dental coverage, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and life insurance, but will be responsible to pay the full premium for these benefits. Leave may be granted to a contractual employee at a rate of one hour for every 30 hours worked, not to exceed 40 hours per calendar year.

Location & Schedule

MDH Office of Enterprise Technology (OET), Division of Medicaid Information Systems (DMIS), 201 W. Preston Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. This position is hybrid telework eligible.