Senior COBOL Developer

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with COBOL development and mainframe applications.
• Experience supporting mainframe modernization, migration, or decommissioning projects.
• Ability to analyze legacy applications and identify opportunities to migrate, modernize, or retire functionality.
• Experience with cloud technologies and cloud migration initiatives.
• Strong understanding of application dependencies, interfaces, data flows, and legacy system architecture.
• Experience with application testing, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Analyze existing COBOL/mainframe applications to determine migration, modernization, or retirement strategies.
• Support initiatives to move applications to cloud platforms, improve existing solutions, or decommission legacy functionality.
• Identify application dependencies, interfaces, data requirements, and potential migration risks.
• Develop, modify, and maintain COBOL applications as required during modernization initiatives.
• Collaborate with architecture, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to execute migration and decommissioning plans.
• Support data and application migration activities while ensuring system integrity and business continuity.
• Perform testing, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and production support.
• Create technical documentation for application architecture, dependencies, migration plans, and decommissioning activities.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, optimize, or eliminate legacy processes and applications.