COBOL Developer

Cobol Developer Initially 6 months daily rate contract Dublin City Center (Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite) The successful candidate will: Be an experienced developer/analyst who can act on own initiative, is a self-starter with a positive outlook and driven to improve skills. Have strong knowledge / experience of the following: Microfocus COBOL Micro Focus Enterprise Edition 6.0 Visual Studio 2008 & 2010 SQL Server 2008 R2 JCL C# ASP.NET Powershell Subversion TeamCity IIS. Have strong planning skills and organising of own work and can deliver formal plans and accurate estimates for own work with set targets. Be able to work with colleagues and clients to develop and agree requirements and apply various analysis and modelling techniques to the information gathering process, e.g. AGILE, modelling, prototyping, etc. Be able to specify the logical information flows, processes, data objects and dialogues for a system that will meet the requirements. Have Strong analysis and problem solving (Critical Thinking) skills. Have proven experience of designing, constructing, modifying, testing and documenting changes to deliver a quality product. Have an awareness and be able to take into account any limitations of both technical and non-technical features of the target implementation environment. Skills to test all work to ensure no problems are encountered after go-live. Have an awareness of the need for and means of achieving quality in all tasks undertaken. Have a deep understanding of the Life Assurance industry and its products. Document all work to the required standard. Works well in a team and carries out all required reporting procedures Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Skills: C# ASP.NET COBOL