Remote: TXSeries Cobol / CICS Application Developer

Remote: TXSeries Cobol / CICS Application Developer

Posted 2 weeks ago by 1755333699

Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA

Summary: As a TXSeries CICS Application Developer, you will enhance, maintain, and modernize critical business applications developed in C on IBM TXSeries with CICS. The role involves collaboration with infrastructure and cloud teams to transition workloads to hybrid or cloud-native platforms. Key responsibilities include analyzing applications, migrating logic to modern architectures, and implementing CI/CD practices. A strong understanding of COBOL and Linux environments is essential for success in this position.

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 replatform 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

Role :

As a TXSeries CICS Application Developer, you will be responsible for enhancing, maintaining, and modernizing critical business applications developed in C and running on IBM TXSeries with CICS. You will work closely with infrastructure and cloud teams to transition these workloads to hybrid or cloud-native platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift or HCI environments.

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 specially 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.

Must have skills:

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