COBOL Developer

Job Title:

COBOL Developer

Location:

Boston, MA Onsite

Experience:

8+ Years

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.

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain COBOL mainframe applications
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• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain COBOL batch and online programs
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• 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.