Job Title: COBOL Developer
Location: Boston, MA Onsite
Experience:8+ Years
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Senior COBOL Developer to design, develop, maintain, and support enterprise mainframe applications. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, and mainframe batch/online processing. The candidate will work closely with business analysts, technical teams, and application support teams to deliver enhancements and resolve production issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, enhance, and maintain COBOL mainframe applications.
- Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Develop and maintain COBOL batch and online programs.
- Create and modify JCL for application execution, scheduling, and batch processing.
- Develop and optimize DB2 SQL queries, stored procedures, and database interactions.
- Work with CICS programs and transactions for online processing.
- Develop and maintain VSAM files and associated file-processing programs.
- Perform program analysis, coding, unit testing, debugging, and implementation.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root-cause analysis (RCA).
- Analyze application logs, job outputs, abends, dumps, and system errors to identify issues.
- Participate in application releases, deployments, and production support activities.
- Work with scheduling tools such as Control-M or similar enterprise schedulers.
- Perform performance tuning for COBOL programs, DB2 queries, and batch jobs.
- Develop technical documentation, program specifications, and implementation documentation.
- Collaborate with Business Analysts, QA teams, architects, and offshore/onshore development teams.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Ensure development follows enterprise coding standards, security guidelines, and change-management processes.