COBOL Mainframe Developer
Johannesburg - South Africa
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced COBOL / Mainframe Developer to join our team and play a pivotal role in supporting and enhancing business-critical legacy systems within the financial services sector. This is a hands-on position focused on stability performance and the continuous evolution of core platforms that power essential operations.
You will work with COBOL in IBM z/OS environments maintaining and optimising high-volume transactional systems with a particular emphasis on employee benefits and retirement fund addition to strong production support and troubleshooting responsibilities this role offers meaningful involvement in modernisation and integration initiatives helping to connect proven legacy systems with contemporary technologies including APIs and cloud platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain and enhance COBOL-based systems supporting critical business functions
- Analyse business requirements and translate into technical solutions
- Support production incidents defect resolution and system improvements
- Participate in impact analysis testing and release cycles
- Collaborate with BAs architects and cross-functional teams
- Contribute to modernisation initiatives where applicable.
- 5 years COBOL development experience (recent hands-on)
- Strong experience in mainframe environments (IBM z/OS)
- COBOL / ACUCOBOL
- Experience working on Employee benefits retirements funds core transactional systems (e.g. banking insurance policy admin payments)
- Ability to analyse maintain and enhance existing legacy codebases and have strong troubleshooting and production support experience
- Batch processing and high-volume transaction systems
- Modernisation / integration projects ( Java cloud)
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments
- Prior experience in financial services (banking or insurance)
Required Skills:
COBOL development mainframe environments (IBM z/OS) COBOL ACUCOBOL