Mainframe Developer - COBOL

About Evernorth:

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI), creates pharmacy, care, and benefits solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention, and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people.

Responsibilities:

• Support, maintain and participate in the development of software utilizing technologies such as COBOL, DB2, CICS and JCL. 
• Support, maintain and participate in the ETL development of software utilizing technologies such as Talend, Abinitio, AWS Glue, PySpark.
• Provide expertise, tools, and assistance to operations, development, and support teams for critical production issues and maintenance 
• Troubleshoot production issues, diagnose the problem, and implement a solution - First line of defense in finding the root cause 
• Work cross-functionally with the support team, development team and business team to efficiently address customer issues. 
• Active member of high-performance software development and support team in an agile environment. 

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Strong Mainframe experience, using Cobol, JCL, DB2 and VSAM
• Strong SQL knowledge on OLAP DB platforms (Teradata, Snowflake) and OLTP DB platforms (Oracle, DB2, Postgres, SingleStore).
• Strong experience with Teradata SQL and Utilities
• Strong experienced with Oracle, Postgres and DB2 SQL and Utilities
• Develop high quality database solutions
• Ability to do extensive analysis on complex SQL processes and design skills
• Ability to analyze existing SQL queries for performance improvements
• Experience in ETL frameworks like Talend, Abinitio, AWS Glue.
• Experience in software development phases including design, configuration, testing, debugging, implementation, and support of large-scale, business centric and process-based applications 
• Proven experience working with diverse teams of technical architects, business users and IT areas on all phases of the software development life cycle. 
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Structured, methodical approach to systems development and troubleshooting 
• Ability to ramp up fast on a system architecture 
• Experience designing and developing process-based solutions or BPM (business process management) 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization. 
• Strong interpersonal/relationship management skills. 
• Strong time and project management skills. 
• Familiarity with agile methodology including SCRUM team leadership.  
• Familiarity with modern delivery practices such as continuous integration, behavior/test driven development, and specification by example. 
• Desire to work in application support space 
• Passion for learning and desire to explore all areas of IT

Required Experience & Education: 

• 3+ years in an application development role 
• Bachelor's Degree or higher from an accredited university or a minimum of three (3) years of experience in software development in lieu of the bachelor’s degree education requirement 

Desired Experience:

• Exposure to AWS 
• Healthcare experience