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Senior Natural Software Developers
Duration of the project: 2 years Plus extendable
Location: West Sacramento CA
Intoduction:
The purpose of this RFO is to select up to two (2) experienced Senior Natural Software Developers with extensive knowledge and experience with pension and/or financial mainframe systems to work on complex projects and efforts. The Developers will perform various systems analyses and programming activities related to the CalSTRS' current mainframe pension administration system and the future pension administration system. The delivery of these services requires senior level skills in business requirement analysis, system design, functional and technical specification documentation, programming/coding, and testing. The Developers will be responsible for following the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology for development activities while working with a variety of CalSTRS business areas. The services required are described in Exhibit A, Statement of Work, included in this document.
Minimum Technical Qualifications
1. At least ten (10) years of experience programming in a Natural/ADABAS development environment.
2. At least ten (10) years of hands-on experience following a structured System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
3. At least three (3) years of demonstrated experience working as a Natural developer with a pension or financial system.
Desirable Technical Qualifications
1.Experience with a Natural Construct technical environment.
2. Experience with the conversion of data from ADABAS to SQL Server.
3. Experience with and knowledge of SQL.
4. Experience with and knowledge of Job Control Language (JCL) and Time Sharing Option (TSO).
Description of Services
The Senior Natural Software Developer (Contractor) will be responsible for the execution of the following mainframe system activities to resolve/respond to, as assigned:
1) Incidents,
2) Data Change Requests,
3) Information Requests,
4) Enhancements,
5) Data Cleansing, and
6) Data Conversion between the current and future pension system.
The Contractor is expected to perform various system analysis and programming activities related to one or more of the following assigned project/efforts:
Data Quality Project
Operational and legislation implementation efforts
Other enterprise projects requiring Natural Software Developer support
Tasks/Deliverables:
1. Follow the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology in developing quality solutions to meet customer needs.
2. Under general direction from team management and leads, formulate and define system scope and objectives.
3. Work at a high technical level on all phases of application system analysis and programming activity.
4. Work with customers to identify and document business requirements.
5. Perform analysis to determine system and performance impact.
6. Develop or modify functional specifications.
7. Develop technical specifications, detailed test plans, test scripts, and test execution checklists.
8. Construct code to meet specifications.
9. Conduct unit and system integration testing.
10. Prepare software release documents.
11. Participate in quality assurance peer reviews of business requirements, technical specifications, test documentation, and code.
12. Devise or modify procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results.
13. May be responsible for completing one or more phases of an enhancement effort.
14. May be responsible for leading a team of developers for individual system enhancements.
15. Transfer of knowledge to appropriate CalSTRS employees is required, along with any requested materials and content for transfer of knowledge.
16. Such other tasks and related services to provide the tasks/deliverables hereunder, as requested by CalSTRS.
SoftSol, Inc.
