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.