Cobol Developer with TX Series exp

Summary: The role of Cobol Developer with TX Series experience involves enhancing and modernizing critical business applications developed in C and running on IBM TXSeries with CICS. The developer will collaborate with infrastructure and cloud teams to transition workloads to hybrid or cloud-native platforms. Key responsibilities include analyzing and maintaining applications, migrating application logic to modern architectures, and implementing CI/CD practices. The position requires a strong understanding of COBOL and related technologies, particularly in a Linux environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze, maintain, and enhance applications developed in C using EXEC CICS commands.
• Understand and work with TXSeries CICS region configuration and transaction flows.
• Recompile CICS-based C applications for modern Linux environments.
• Design and implement solutions to containerize or replat form legacy transactional workloads.
• Migrate CICS application logic to modern microservices or API-based architecture where appropriate.
• Collaborate with architects, DBAs, and MQ teams to ensure end-to-end transaction flow.
• Implement logging, observability, and CI/CD practices for C-based transaction apps.
• Should be able to understand COBOL programs especially datatypes and must modify as required.
• Should have platform understanding of AIX and Linux especially with network byte ordering.
• Understanding of 32-bit and 64-bit COBOL types.
• COBOL Debugging skills.

Key Skills:

• Scripting.
• TXSeries/CICS application programming.
• Working experience with Linux.
• Working experience with products like DB2/Oracle/MQ.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT