Role : Vantage Developer 

Location : Hartford, CT

Duration : 6 Months (C2H)

Required Skills : COBOL

Responsibilities

·Analyze specifications

·Determine changes needed for implementation and applying the changes

·Plan for QA testing

·Coordinate the implementation to production.

·Act as the key technical resource for projects and code reviews.

·Responsible for systems design, technical specifications, coding and related technical tasks.

·Function as a technical reviewer and/or a resource for other team members.

·Participate in product development workgroup sessions, fulfillment of SOX and SDLC requirements, insuring that unit/systems/parallel test results are presented to the business area of review and signoff.

Requirements

Education

·Bachelor’s Degree within a technical discipline or equivalent work experience

Experience

·Proven skills with IBM MVS, TSO, JCL and COBOL. Expediter, Debug, Princeton SoftTech, FileAid.

·Demonstrated programming and design skills within both batch and on-line CICS environments.

·Working knowledge of DB2.

·Understanding of Project Life Cycle methodologies

·A minimum of 10 years analysis, programming, design and implementation experience.

·Prior Vantage experience is a must (10 years required)

·Strong analytical skills

·Variable UL, SVUL, InReach, Group UL, and/or Moneyguard UL product knowledge is desired

·Must have the ability to work with Actuarial and QA to analyze specifications and determine modifications required for development and implementation

·Very good communication, negotiation, requirements gathering and problem solving skills.

·Team player a must.

·Must have the ability to juggle multiple projects, handle priority changes and meet deadlines

·On-call support required (4 separate weeks per year).

·Able to provide quick and accurate technical support to client, operations, and other team members.