External Title COBOL Software Developer, Advisor

Responsibilities

The Peraton Health, State and Local Sectorisseeking COBOL Software Developer, Advisorto join us in supporting andmaintainingthe Medicare Fee For Service  claims processing system. In this role, youwillserveas a principal technical contributor onan Agile team providing maintenance and operations support for the Medicare

Durable Medical Equipment (DME) contract.

As a COBOL Software Development, Advisor, you will help plan, direct, and coordinate software development across multiple functional areasof the DME system.

This rolewilloperatein a highly structured, rigorous development environment, spanning high-level technical design,hands-on coding, unit testing, and defect resolution.

At this level,the candidate is expected to exercise a high degree of independent judgement, serve as a technical authority within the team, and provide leadership and mentorship to developers at all levels.

The Advisor will design, develop, and enhance core software programs while adhering to strict coding standards. Quality is vital to this mission,thisrole mustbuild and execute your own unit test plans, test cases, and test data.

Additionally, the Advisor roleis responsible for installing changes into internal testing regions,troubleshootingandresolvingdefects,and keeping technicaldocumentationcurrent.

What you'll do:

• Designs, codes,unit tests, and debugs complexenhancementsand fixes tothe Medicare health claims processing system while adhering to strict coding standards.

• Leads technical design sessions anddrivesimplementation ofcomplex software components.

• Appliesdeeptechnicalexpertisetodeliverreliable, high-quality maintenance and development solutions.

• Integrate technical knowledge and business understanding to implement end-user and enterprise solutions of high complexity with minimal direction.

• Serves as a principal technical contributor on a persistent
  
  Agile development team supporting maintenance and operations.

• Demonstrates advanced, practical mastery of mainframe development concepts, practices, and engineering techniques.

• Consult with team members, cross-functional organizations, clients, and vendors toresolvecomplex technical issues.

• Servesas a mentorand technical resourcetodevelopers,actively supporting team growth and knowledge transfer.

• Represents the team during client-facing technical discussions, communicating complex issues clearly and effectively.

• Provide reliable time and resources estimates for your assigned tasks and projects to ensure sprint predictability.

• Troubleshoot problems independently and deliver effective, well-reasoned solutions.

• Contributes to the strategic technical direction of the development teamandassistsin developing solutions to complex business and technology problems.

What you'll need:

• Education & Experience:
  
  BS/BAdegree with 8+years of relevant experience; or Master'sdegree with 6 years of relevant experience;or HS diploma with 12 years of relevant experience.

• Mainframe development experience in production or maintenance environment.

• Advancedproficiencywith mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, TSO and VSAM.

• Knowledge of health care claims processing, particularly Medicare Fee For Service .

• Abilityto perform well in a highly rigorous, structured development environment.

• Demonstrated experience as asenior or principal software developer in a mainframe environment.

• Demonstratedability todetermineand decompose business and technical requirements.

• Application lifecyclemethodologyexperience,specifically Agile/SCRUM.

• Strong communication skills and technical writing ability, including client-facing communication.

• Ability to develop application project solutions andprovideaccurateestimates.

• Experience with Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B,DMEor Medicare Common Working File (CWF) specific processing systems.

• Experience working withor in support ofCMSprograms or contracts.

• Experience with Dev Ops/Dev Sec Opstools  and frameworks through plan, define, build, test, release and deploy processes.

• SAFeexperience and/or certification.

• Must be able to achieveandmaintaina
  
  Public
  
  Trust clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Assembler language in a mainframe environment.

• Familiarity with development and collaboration tools:
  
  Git Hub, Jira, Confluence, Eclipse (IDz/RDz).

• Exposure to modern languages such asJava or Python.

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