Application Architect -cobal

Madison, United States | Posted on 08/06/2026

• Actual Job Title Application Architect II
• Job Type FT Contract
• Contract duration 1 year
• Date Opened 08/06/2026
• Target Date 08/07/2026
• City Madison
• State/Province Wisconsin
• Country United States
• Number of Positions 1

Under the general supervision of the Development, DBA, & Middle Ware Section supervisor, this

position provides architectural and big picture oversight for development of new or enhanced

software products. This position is responsible for ensuring quality and consistency of the software

architecture across the system and providing day-to-day technical guidance to teams comprised of

software developers, database modelers, data staff middleware staff, and other technical and

business support staff. This position performs work in all phases of the systems development life

cycle, which includes requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation,

enhancements, and maintenance. An Application Architect defines the system, technical, and

application architectures for major areas of development, and recommends course of action to

maintain cost effectiveness and business realization.

Further, this position should work well both as a member of development teams under the direction

of the project manager, or as directed to function as the Scrum Master. When acting as a Scrum

Master, the role will be responsible for agile development oversight and operations management

for highly complex, multi-platform mainframe and web-based applications and systems. The Scum

Master is responsible for ensuring that agile teams follow established processes, efficiently

deliver new software, and effectively provide enhancements and support for existing software. In

addition, this position ensures that development and project teams are compliant with ETF

development policies, procedures, and standards as well as enterprise-wide standards. The Scrum

Master leads and monitors the work of development teams to achieve daily, sprint, and project

goals.

In addition, this position may fulfill the role of project manager. When acting as a project manager,

the role will be responsible for planning and leading projects. Projects will be technical but could

be either development or infrastructure in nature. The project manager will follow agile project

management practices while providing project oversight and management for complex, multi- platform mainframe, database, and web-based applications and systems. As a project manager, he leads and monitors the work of project teams ensuring the delivery of project milestones and goals.

This position helps ensure that we meet our operational deliverables, while enhancing and

This position works closely with business users and product owners to make sure that acceptance criteria is clear and meets users’ needs. In addition, this position provides direction, expertise, and consultation to business users and technical staff on agile development processes. The

Application Architect provides consultation to the Office of Enterprise Initiatives (OEI), ETF business areas, external business partners and users to deliver high quality software solutions across the organization.

This position is required to have extensive experience in analysis, design and coding principles and concepts, in addition to developing an in-depth knowledge of the customers’ business processes. The principal development tools currently include Java, React, Jira, Change Man, Bulk Mailer, Git Hub, DB2, COBOL, CICS, and JCL. An Application Architect stays up to date Application Architect II

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on business initiatives and objectives, particularly as these relate to infrastructure and development architecture issues, research, and implements best practices frameworks/capability models that will control costs, provide higher quality, and/or increase predictability of service delivery and research new technology and development tools to remain abreast of current and emerging technology.

• 1. Expert knowledge of the uses and applications of the COBOL Java, and/React programming language.
• 2. Expert knowledge of Agile principles, Scrum…