Overview PLEASE NOTE: No corp-to-corp candidates will be accepted. • Tier One Technologies is seeking a COBOL/CICS Developer to provide system development, enhancement, and maintenance support for a payroll application of our U.S. Government client. • This will be a 100% remote Contract-to-Hire position. • Must be a US Citizen. • SELECTED CANDIDATES WITHOUT REQUIRED CLEARANCE WILL BE SUBJECT TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION TO RECEIVE IT. Responsibilities • Ensure that requirements comply with client requirements and government standards through formal verification methods. • Translate high level product development strategies into system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower level detailed implementation requirements. • Establish and coordinate development of standards, practices, and procedures as related to the overall product development. • Design interfaces and bring system elements together so they work as a whole. • Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. • Customer liaison and support for business development activities and to understand and shape requirements. • Participate in system conceptual design and documentation of the design concepts. • Contribute in design reviews of components (hardware and software) to ensure applicability to the current system and traceability of requirements through compliance verification and validation. • Generate system level requirements verification procedures and customer acceptance test procedures. • Review test plans/procedures and ensure they meet the objectives of the contractual requirements and participate in the testing process to validate requirements. • Modify existing databases and database management systems or direct programmers and analysts to make changes. • Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system or direct others in coding descriptions. • Work as part of a project team to coordinate database development and determine project scope and limitations. • Review project requests describing database users' needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project. Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field is recommended. • 5+ years of mainframe experience using COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2. • Prior experience working with FOCUS COBOL. • Ability of designing, coding and testing software requirements. • Basic knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery. • Familiarity and knowledge of the Agile methodology is a plus. • Ability to work independently. • Strong verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills. • Must be a US Citizen (no dual citizenship). • Able to obtain DoD Public Trust clearance. • Must not have traveled outside the US for a combined total of 6 months or more in the last 5 years. • Must have resided in the US for the last 5 years.