Technical Specialist 2/TS2

Description

Experience Required Candidate requirements 7+ years of Python programming experience, at least 4 of which must be with Python 3. At least one project migrating a substantial legacy code base to Python. At least one project designing and implementing a software architecture for batch script execution. Preferred qualifications Experience with Python in Microsoft Visual Studio Experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Services (TFS) for source code control, work item management, release management, and/or build processes Experience with COBOL code, especially porting to Python Experience with SAS code, especially porting to Python Experience with Tableau Job Required The Department of Education calculates and processes approximately 8 billion of school funding annually. The data processing systems used are a mix of COBOL and SAS programs; running on an OpenVMS mainframe; reading from Oracle databases, SAS datasets, and flat files; and writing to SAS datasets and flat files. The Department seeks to modernize this data processing environment by reworking the system to utilize modern technologies, specifically replacing COBOL and SAS on OpenVMS with Python on Windows and better leveraging databases where appropriate. To this end, the Department seeks a senior programmer/system architect with significant Python 3 expertise, in order to