We currently hiring for Senior Mainframe Developer to perform maintenance, remediation's, and updates to mission critical applications used to support the DCSA background investigation processes. Provide architecture, development and cyber security support for the High Value Assets (HVAs) that make up the background investigation system. This position will be located in the Washington DC Metro area (DC / MD / VA) and will be a hybrid position, primarily remote with a periodic need for customer site visits.

Responsibilities:

In this role you will support the Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency (DCSA), Background Information Systems (BIS), Case Processing and other background investigation systems. The successful candidate will support requirements elicitation, analysis, development, testing, and application level operational support for mission critical applications providing background investigation processing. The position serves as a member of the development team working both operational and maintenance (O&M) and enhancement initiatives associated with application-level development and operations support. The position requires interaction and coordination touchpoints related to infrastructure, networking, security, and other support entities. ServiceNow is the primary workflow management tool used within the environment.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Interaction with customers and stakeholders to understand user requirements
• Use Atlassian tools including JIRA for requirements tracking
• Design solutions that efficiently and effectively meet customers requirements
• Interaction and support with other development team personnel
• Develop software using Natural with ADABAS
• Develop and maintain software processes to transfer files using Connect Direct software
• Develop and maintain JCL for batch processing
• Develop and maintain queues and flows using IBM MQ
• Anticipates customers and project needs and proactively identifies potential solutions

Qualifications:

Bachelor's with 12+ years (or commensurate experience)

Required Skills and Experience:

• 15+ years of experience on large scale applications on a mainframe platform developing in both a Batch and Online environment
• Expert proficiency programming in Natural using ADABAS
• Experienced in developing using Software AGs NaturalONE Eclipse-based development environment
• 5+ years experience working with customers on defining requirements
• Expert proficiency working with customers to define requirements
• Strong ability to design solutions across multiple systems or sub-systems
• Demonstrated experience interacting with software application program development and management personnel.
• Proficient in O365 components to include Word, Excel, etc.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Clearance Required: US Citizenship and ability to hold a TS Security Clearance.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Active Security Clearance of Top-Secret level or higher
• Strong working knowledge using IBMs Connect:Direct for file transfers
• Experience with using IBM MQ
• Familiarity with Confluence and Jira
• Working knowledge of ServiceNow
• Experience with meeting hosting via MS Teams