Senior COBOL Developer

Senior COBOL Developer

Oxfordshire / Hybrid (1-day per week in office)

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Easily commutable from Birmingham, Coventry & London

£55k - £65k + Corporate benefits

A long-established software business is hiring a Senior COBOL Developer to maintain and support its core platform during a 4-5 years migration project. You will work on a substantial estate of mission-critical COBOL applications running the business day to day, alongside an active programme of enhancements, regulatory updates and performance work.

You will work in a small, Agile development team but take the lead on the COBOL work. The role is hands-on, mixing new development, BAU enhancement, production support and code archaeology across the legacy estate.

Responsibilities:

Writing new Enterprise COBOL programs and enhancing existing ones, including embedded SQL against DB2

Owning batch JCL and online CICS transactions, including BMS maps and copybooks

Code archaeology and data analysis across legacy modules

Supporting release management and code promotion across environments

Mentoring junior team members and helping shape technical standards

Your experience will ideally include:

Multiple years of Enterprise COBOL or VS COBOL II on a real production estate

Strong CICS, DB2 and JCL, with hands-on VSAM

Comfortable with xkybehq copybooks, BMS maps and embedded SQL on z/OS

Code management with Endevor, ChangeMan, SCLM or similar

Pragmatic approach to legacy code, with the patience to read it carefully before changing it

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