COBOL Developer

COBOL DeveloperJob Location: Columbus, OH (This is onsite 3 days a week in Columbus, Ohio and 2 days remote)This is a contract to hire roleCandidate must have a Public Profile -YesJob Description:At least 7+ years of professional IT experience in application development and with the following set of skills:Research, design, develop, integrate, enhance, and support service-oriented application system projects and using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Develop technical designs based on functional requirements. Analyze, design and develop integration layer of SOA stack to provide technical solutions based upon user specs to support financial service lines. Perform unit testing and integration of layers based on WebSphere SOA stack. Research and resolve problems that occur in production environmentsMin 7 years of experience in IBM Mainframe COBOL/DB2/CICS development which includes min 1 year of experience in Web services (REST/SOAP), XML, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)Proficient in DB2, Native Stored Procedures, CICS, Batch, JCL, VSAM, QMF, TSO/ISPF, BMC products, Abend-Aid, FileAid, Changman, Xpeditor, ZOSConnectPrepare detailed design of current COBOL/Mainframe/Web Services/MQ code for SOAP to REST migrationSupport various maintenance projects and bug fixesWorking knowledge of multi platform environment supporting technical industry trends including APIs, micro services development using Java Spring Framework, Spring BootA banking industry background is a plusExperience working with/interfacing with distributed technologies (IBM - DataPower / WESB /IIB ) is a plus