Job ID: FL-PR654576-R125327 (911091226)
Remote/Local COBOL/Mainframe Developer (15+) with JCL, SCRUM, ERP/financial, ER, Tibco Mainframe FOCUS/WebFocus, Cool GEN, DB2 z/OS, T-SQL experience
Location: Tallahassee, FL (FDOT)
Duration: 12 Months
8 Job Specific Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)
FOCUS:
1. Experience with master files.
2. Experience with complex queries involving multiple data sources.
3. Experience with reading, creating, and updating flat files.
4. Experience with multiple include statements.
JCL:
5. Reading, editing, and creating JCL jobs.
6. Experience with reading, creating, and editing flat files.
7. Experience with running multiple programs from single JCL jobs.
8. Experience with multiple RC Types
9. Experience with scheduling JCL jobs as well as reviewing executed jobs.
10. Experience with submitting ad-hoc jobs.
Applications Development KSAs:
11. Knowledge of the SCRUM Framework.
12. Knowledge of financial systems such as an ERP.
13. Experience with Entity Relationship Diagrams.
14. Experience with documenting and communicating technical requirements.
15. Experience in coordinating with Business Analysts to capture business requirements.
16. Ability to bridge the gap between technical and business language.
9 General Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
The submitted candidate must be able to apply common knowledge, skills, and abilities in the
following areas:
1.Communication: Ability to clearly convey information, in both written and verbal
formats, to individuals or groups in a wide variety of settings (i.e., project team meetings,
management presentations, etc.). Must have the ability to effectively listen and process
information provided by others.
2.Customer Service: Works well with clients and customers (i.e., business office, public, or
other agencies). Able to assess the needs of the customer, provide information or assistance
to satisfy expectations or resolve a problem.
3.Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions.
4.Flexibility: Open to change, new processes (or process improvement), and new
information. Has the ability to adapt in response to new information, changing conditions,
or unexpected obstacles. Ability to receive and give constructive criticism and maintain
effective work relationships with others.
5.Interpersonal: Shows friendliness, courtesy, understanding, and politeness to others.
6.Leadership: Motivates, encourages, and challenges others. Adapt leadership styles in a variety
of situations.
7.Problem Solving: Ability to identify, evaluate, and use sound judgement to generate and
evaluate alternative actions, and make recommendations as accordingly.
8.Team Building: Encourages, inspires, and guides others toward accomplishing the common goal.
5 Education
Bachelor’s Degree in a field of study related to technology or finance. Work experience can
substitute on a year for year basis for the degree.
6 Experience
Candidates MUST have a minimum of 7 years of experience in multiple IT areas and 2–3 years
of relevant architecture experience. Candidate must have advanced to expert level knowledge
and understanding of architecture, applications systems design and integration, specifically
Tibco Mainframe FOCUS and JCL, mainframe batch schedulers, chaining jobs between
predecessors and dependents, and column delimited flat text file structures are required for this
position.
Candidates with resumes reflecting experience with Cool GEN, COBOL, DB2 z/OS, and DB2
Databases will be given preference.
Databases will be given preference.
7 Primary Job Duties/ Tasks
The submitted candidate must be able to perform the following duties and/or tasks.
Duties of the selected candidate will include, but not be limited to:
1. Analyze and document existing computing assets, including technical
specifications and established business rules.
2. Assist with debugging and troubleshooting existing processes when needed.
a. Diagnose and resolve issues after performing root cause analysis.
3. Provide guidance and assist with remediating and upgrading legacy assets.
a. Coordinate with business analysts, other developers, and product owners to
remediate to the new state-wide accounting system.
b. Coordinate with database administrators in analyzing and remediating existing data
structures.
4. Participate in code and design reviews to ensure quality and performance.
5. Perform knowledge transfer with technical staff of the office of the Comptroller.
6. Read and document Mainframe FOCUS queries and convert them to T-SQL queries.
7. Convert Focus mainframe programs using mainframe flat files as a data source to use
database tables instead.
4 Scope of Services
Background: As a result of the Department’s efforts to re-engineer and modernize core financial
systems, there has been over 1,500 computing assets identified as performing some level of
financial planning, analysis, and management functionality that are impacted by the State of
Florida’s accounting system. The Florida Planning, Accounting, and Ledger Management (PALM)
the project is a multiyear endeavor to replace the State of Florida’s accounting and cash
management systems with a modern financial management solution. The Florida PALM Project
is targeted to replace Central, Payroll, and Departmental FLAIR functionality, with go-live
scheduled for January 6, 2026.
The 1,500+ computing assets are comprised of interfaces, enterprise applications,
databases, automated processes, and reporting programs within FDOT that will
require remediation due to:
• Adoption of the Florida PALM Standardized Business Process Model
• Transition to the Florida PALM Chart of Accounts values
• Replacement of Central, Payroll and Departmental FLAIR functionality
• Redevelopment of agency incoming and outgoing interfaces to the statewide accounting
system
• Implementation of Information Warehouse data to support agency specific reporting
requirements.
The computing asset modifications to complete the FDOT PALM System Transition (FPST)
will take place over the course of two years in alignment with the Florida PALM Project
scheduled timeline.
To prepare for the transition to Florida PALM, our agency is seeking a resource knowledgeable
in Tibco Mainframe Focus/WebFocus to lead the effort of updating our numerous Focus assets.
Focus has been used copiously by the department to develop reports, interfaces, and
applications for the past twenty years. It is important we find a resource capable of analyzing
these programs and documenting their specifications.
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