Overview
Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 32 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced SR Legacy System Developer to be a key resource on a technical services team.
Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.
Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law. Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background check
Allied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.
**Location of job: Hybrid**
Responsibilities
The Financial Systems Team at the client is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Developer to join our Information Technology team. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining applications contributing to the Statewide Financial Systems team under the guidance of the Fiscal Management division.
The primary responsibility for this role is to develop and implement advanced solutions in alignment with client’s standards, guidelines, and design documentation. The candidate will perform coding, testing, debugging, and provide high-quality solutions for large-scale enterprise systems.
The successful candidate will collaborate with both technical and non-technical staff to ensure seamless coordination of changes prepare test data, troubleshoot issues, and ensure systems meet availability and performance requirements. Strong technical proficiency and problem-solving skills are essential for this role.
Client will require the Candidate to work on the following initiatives and will perform advanced analysis/programming tasks such as:
- Participating in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle, including design, software development and code review.
- Performing extensive code reviews and analysis.
- Writing reports on code analysis to determine if industry standards and best practices are being followed; provide analysis to address found short comings.
- Providing guidance and knowledge sharing to existing development staff.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
- 5 years experience making code changes in accordance with standards, guidelines, and design documents provided.
- 5 years experience coordinating the testing, debugging, and preparing of test data and interacting with technical and non-technical staff in the coordination of changes
- 5 years professional experience in software development building production software systems
- 5 years experience with IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS
- 5 years experience with IBM DB2 for z/OS
- 5 years experience with MVS/JCL
- 5 years experience with data integration and data quality
- 5 years experience with Software AG's NATURAL
- 5 years experience with highly complex application security requirements
- 2 years experience with any of the Texas client's Statewide Financial Systems: USAS, USPS, SPRS, TINS, HRIS and SPA
- 2 years experience with Agile development experience with Scrum, Kanban, Jira, and Confluence
- 2 years of proficient with the Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, TEAMS, Microsoft Project, Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint
Preferred:
- 5 years experience with CICS Web Services
- 5 years experience with CONTROL-M for z/OS
- 5 years of Public sector experience (Federal, State or Local Government)
- 5 years experience designing and implementing secure RESTful web services
- 5 years experience with: code reviews and in-depth code analysis and completing system documentation
- 2 years experience in developing and implementing containerized web applications in cloud with high proficiency in one or more languages from our stack (REACT JS, Node JS , Phthon,JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS etc.)
- 2 years of hands-on experience in Core AWS Services like CloudFront, EC2, CloudFormation, Lamda, S3, Route53, AWS CDK,SNS & SQS
- 2 years experience building apps using Phyton, React JS, NodeJS, webservices, writing RESTFul interfaces
- 2 years experience designing and implementing secure RESTful web services
- 1 year experience designing and building Microservices
- 1 year experience with Agile teams that have iteratively and incrementally delivered software while practicing code review
- 1 year experience with Java programming language
- 1 year experience with coaching, mentoring and knowledge transfer to junior level software developers and other personnel as required
- 1 year experience with BMC Code Pipeline (formerly Compuware ISPW)
- 1 year knowledge of Topaz
- 1 year knowledge of IDz, Eclipse for Mainframe
