ADABAS Natural Developer

This ADABAS/Natural Developer position will be responsible for day-to-day maintenance, future development, and operations of various Natural/ADABAS systems supporting city operating departments. The majority of the systems are supporting the Finance department, Board of Pensions and City Commissioners. Tasks will include but not be limited to new programming, modification, and maintenance of old code, Database modifications, development, and maintenance of documentation, business analysis, running of batch jobs, ad-hoc reports and queries and JCL scripting.

Essential Functions

• Maintenance and support of Natural/ADABAS mainframe applications.
• Maintenance and support for mainframe JCL, PROCEDURE, PARMETER and data objects.
• Future development and analysis.
• Apply enhancements to existing code base as needed.
• Apply acceptable testing and analysis procedures while implementing enhancements to existing applications.
• Follow recommended procedures for changes, documentation, and security.
• Support and maintenance of ADABAS database structures.
• Interface with internal and external customers and develop programming to support customer needs.
• Developing code from specifications for applications that retrieve and process data from external data providers.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
KNOWLEDGE OF:

• The applications and techniques of programming in Software AG Natural computer language.

• ADABAS database theory, techniques, and structures.

• PREDICT Data Dictionary functionality.

• The theory and practice of systems analysis and design.

• The IBM Job Control Language (JCL), IBM z/360 OS and ISPF interface.

• The principles, methods and techniques used in systems and program flow chart preparation and documentation.

• VSAM file structures a plus.

• Strong understanding of the full software development process.

• Understanding of Oracle database and reporting a plus.

ABILITY TO:

• Understand technical specifications and translate them into application code.
• Work with deadlines and changing priorities in a complex environment.
• Work independently or within a team.
• Communicate data processing concept to non-technical personnel.
• Establish effective working relationships with associates, departmental and administrative officials, supervisors, and other data processing personnel.

Requirements

• Completion of a bachelor’s degree program at an accredited college or university, which has included major course work in Computer Science, information science, systems analysis, software engineering, or a closely related field.
• 5+ years of related experience.
• Any equivalent combination of education and experience determined to be acceptable by the Office of Innovation & Technology and Human Resources.