Job Description and Duties
This position will act as a primary support of State Fund’s Policy systems. The tasks for the COBOL/DB2 Programmer include, but are not limited to the following:
- Ability to quickly understand and code Mainframe COBOL /DB2 programs per technical and user requirement specifications.
- Provide production support maintaining, troubleshooting, and problem solving with existing State Fund Mainframe COBOL/DB2 business programs and systems.
- Develop project plans and detailed schedules.
- Use industry and/or State Fund mandated standard coding techniques and testing processes
- to ensure quality.
- Document all programming work per State Fund standards.
- Enhance existing State Fund systems to meet new business requirements.
- Explain and/or document complex problems and solutions in an understandable manner to both technical and non-technical State Fund personnel.
- Present technical solutions and alternatives to management and decision makers at a level of understanding commensurate with the audience.
- Configure, build and maintain the production run processes. Mainframe job and processes. (JCL,COBOL,DB2,EZTRIEVE)
- Solve problems that arise with database data, production runs and/or the systems products (on-line screens, reports files or interfaces).
- Tuning and optimization of COBOL/DB2 programs and systems.
- Maintenance of system documentation.
- Troubleshoot, Identify and correct reported or suspected errors with code, logic and/or data.
- Apply necessary and discretionary system changes and/or fixes, making system enhancements as required by IT management, business units, statutes, contracts or the system’s underlying architecture and/or technology as authorized by State Fund IT management.
- Helpdesk related activities for Policy system related problems and issues.
- Create new applications, programs and/or interfaces in order to resolve problems.
- Technical Lead or assistant with development teams.
- Share knowledge, mentor and train State Fund staff, on a regular and ongoing basis through the State Fund Mentoring and Skills Enhancement program as well as shadowing and consistent transfer of information form Consultants to State Fund project team members.
This advertisement may be used to fill multiple vacancies and will run until filled with the additional following cutoff dates: June 1, 2022; and June 18, 2022.
Benefits
State Fund employees are eligible for a number of benefits. Our benefit package includes:
Health Benefits Program (CalPERS), Retirement (CalPERS ), Employer Health and Consolidated Benefits Contributions, Dental, Vision, 401(k) and 457 Deferred Compensation Plans, Employee Assistance Program, Group Legal Services Insurance, Holidays, Vacation/Sick/Other Paid Leave, Flex Elect Reimbursement Program, Wellness and Recognition, Alternate Work Schedules, Transit Pass Program, Tuition Reimbursement, Dependent Scholarship Program, Leadership Training, Mentoring Program
Please access the link below for information on benefits afforded to CalPERS membership and benefits/protections provided by the State Civil Service Act
https://www.calhr.ca.gov/Pages/California-State-Civil-Service-Employee-Benefits-Summary.aspx
Equal Opportunity Employer
The State of California is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.
It is an objective of the State of California to achieve a drug-free work place. Any applicant for state employment will be expected to behave in accordance with this objective because the use of illegal drugs is inconsistent with the law of the State, the rules governing Civil Service, and the special trust placed in public servants.
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