Senior Cobol Developer

Role: Senior COBOL Developer

Location: Remote (EST Hours)

Duration: 6+ months

Overview: We are seeking an experienced Senior COBOL Developer to join a high-impact engagement supporting critical mainframe systems for one of our enterprise or government clients. The ideal candidate brings deep mainframe expertise, strong analytical thinking, and a collaborative mindset to design, develop, and maintain mission-critical batch and online COBOL applications.

Must Have: COBOL (IBM z/OS), JCL & Batch Processing, CICS, DB2/IMS/VSAM, ISPF/TSO/SDSF & Mainframe Debugging (Xpediter/File-AID), SDLC & Production Support.

Key Responsibilities:

•       Design, develop, test, and maintain COBOL programs for batch and online mainframe environments.

•       Analyse business and technical requirements to build efficient, maintainable code solutions.

•       Perform enhancements, bug fixes, and performance tuning on existing COBOL applications.

•       Work with DB2, IMS, or VSAM databases to support data access and manipulation needs.

•       Collaborate with business analysts, architects, and QA teams through the full SDLC.

•       Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.

•       Develop and maintain technical documentation including design specs, test plans, and run books.

•       Support production releases, deployments, and post-release monitoring.

•       Work effectively in an Agile or waterfall delivery model as required by the client.

Required Qualifications:

•       7+ years of hands-on COBOL development experience in IBM mainframe environments (z/OS).

•       Strong expertise in JCL, CICS, and batch processing.

•       Proficiency with at least one of DB2, IMS DB/DC, or VSAM file structures.

•       Experience with ISPF/SDSF, TSO/ISPF utilities, and mainframe debugging tools (Xpediter, File-AID, etc.).

•       Solid understanding of mainframe performance tuning and memory/storage management.

•       Experience in the full software development lifecycle including requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, and deployment.

•       Strong problem-solving skills with an ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues.

•       Excellent communication skills and comfort working in a remote, collaborative team setting during EST business hours.