Senior COBOL Developer

Senior COBOL Developer

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

Easily commutable on train 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 long-term migration project. You will work on a substantial estate of business-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.

What you will be doing:

• Writing new COBOL programs and enhancing existing ones across the platform
• Owning batch processing and online transactions, working across copybooks, sort utilities and file handlers
• Code archaeology and data analysis across legacy modules
• Supporting release management and code promotion across environments
• Working with the wider team to prepare modules for the migration workstream
• Mentoring junior team members and helping shape technical standards

Your experience will ideally include:

• Multiple years of hands-on COBOL development on a real production estate
• Acu COBOL / Acucorp / extend experience is a huge plus. Comparable experience with Micro Focus COBOL (Net Express, Visual COBOL, Enterprise Developer), RM COBOL or another distributed COBOL implementation is also welcome
• Comfortable with COBOL copybooks, sort utilities and indexed file systems such as Vision or ISAM
• Working knowledge of at least one relational database (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL or DB2)
• Server-side familiarity with Linux and/or UNIX environments, including shell scripting
• Exposure to source control and code promotion tooling

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