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