Intetics

Senior COBOL Developer – 3 month project

Intetics

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Georgia

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudMicroservicesOracleSDLCSQL

About the role

  • Design, develop, enhance, and maintain COBOL applications in both batch and online environments.
  • Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into robust and maintainable COBOL program logic.
  • Modify and optimize existing COBOL programs, ensuring efficiency, performance, and compliance with financial processing needs.
  • Handle daily batch cycles and real‑time processing, including JCL execution, troubleshooting, abend resolution, and performance tuning.
  • Investigate and resolve production incidents, ensuring system availability and minimal downtime for mission‑critical platforms.
  • Implement data interfaces and integrations, especially with financial / credit‑risk scoring systems, DB2 or other relational databases.
  • Write technical documentation, pseudo‑code, and update system specifications when implementing new features or changes.
  • Collaborate with QA teams on functional, regression, and integration testing; support test cycles and defect resolution.
  • Participate in system modernization efforts, including migration of COBOL modules, integration with modern APIs, or hybrid mainframe–cloud scenarios.
  • Ensure code compliance with security, data quality, and regulatory standards, especially applicable to financial and credit‑risk data.
  • Contribute to Agile/Scrum ceremonies (refinement, planning, reviews) and collaborate closely with business stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 3–5+ years of experience as a COBOL Developer, ideally within banking, credit scoring, finance, or insurance.
  • Strong knowledge of COBOL, including batch and online processing.
  • Hands‑on experience with JCL (Job Control Language) and batch scheduling tools.
  • Solid understanding of mainframe environments (z/OS, CICS, VSAM, DB2).
  • Strong SQL knowledge and experience working with DB2 or MS SQL / Oracle in integrated financial systems.
  • Ability to analyze large, legacy codebases and identify performance bottlenecks.
  • Experience with SDLC, version control, and structured documentation.
  • Strong analytical thinking, problem‑solving capability, and attention to detail.
  • Ability to work in Agile/Scrum teams.
  • Excellent communication skills and comfort working with business users and analysts.
  • Nice‑to‑Have Skills
  • Exposure to credit bureau, scoring, financial risk systems, or enterprise B2B integrations.
  • Familiarity with API integration, MQ/Message Queues, or modernization initiatives (e.g., migrating COBOL logic into microservices).
  • Understanding of DevOps or CI/CD processes for mainframe systems.
  • Knowledge of regulatory frameworks relevant to financial data (Basel, GDPR, PCI-DSS).
  • Experience mentoring junior developers.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
COBOLJCLSQLDB2MS SQLOracleAgileSDLCperformance tuningAPI integration
Soft Skills
analytical thinkingproblem-solvingattention to detailcommunicationcollaborationmentoring