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Assembler and COBOL- CICS Developer

Columbus, OH · On-site

$47 - $63.50/hr

You should have hands-on experience in Assembler (HLASM) programming, COBOL-CICS along with working knowledge of mainframe tools like JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM. Roles & Responsibilities: * Analyse and ...

System One Holdings, LLC

Cobol Programmer

Albany, NY · On-site

$98K/yr

The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of the COBOL programming language, CICS, DB2 and mainframe technologies, open systems interfaces and technologies. The ideal candidate will also ...

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To thrive as a Cobol Cics Db2 professional, you need expertise in COBOL programming, familiarity with CICS transaction processing, and experience working with IBM DB2 databases, often supported by a relevant degree in computer science or a related field. Knowledge of IBM mainframe tools, JCL (Job Control Language), and certifications in mainframe systems or database administration are valuable. Attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and effective communication are important soft skills for interacting with team members and resolving technical issues. These abilities are crucial for ensuring the reliability, performance, and maintenance of mission-critical business applications on mainframe systems.

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Cobol Cics Db2 professionals are usually involved in maintaining and enhancing large-scale, mission-critical applications—often in industries such as banking, insurance, and government. Typical projects include developing or modifying transaction processing systems, batch processing jobs, and database management tasks on IBM mainframe platforms. You may collaborate closely with business analysts, QA testers, and other developers to ensure applications meet business requirements and regulatory standards. The work often involves troubleshooting production issues, optimizing system performance, and updating legacy code to support evolving business needs. This role offers valuable experience working on long-standing enterprise systems critical to organizational operations.

What is a Cobol CICS DB2?

A Cobol CICS DB2 job involves developing, maintaining, and supporting mainframe applications that use COBOL for coding, CICS for online transaction processing, and DB2 for database management. Professionals in this role typically work in industries like banking, insurance, and government, where legacy mainframe systems are prevalent. Responsibilities include writing and debugging COBOL programs, designing and optimizing DB2 queries, and ensuring efficient CICS transaction processing. Strong knowledge of JCL, VSAM, and performance tuning is often required.

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Mainframe Developer (COBOL, CICS, DB2)

System One Holdings, LLC

Salt Lake City, UT • On-site

$90/hr

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Posted 10 days ago

Job description

Mainframe Developer - COBOL, CICS, DB2
6 Months Contract-to-Hire
Midvale, UT and Salt Lake City, Utah
Position Overview
  • Seeking an experienced Mainframe Developer to develop, maintain, enhance, and support mission-critical enterprise applications. The selected candidate will work onsite at the client location in the Midvale/Salt Lake City area.
  • This role requires strong hands-on expertise in COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, and Easytrieve. The developer will support online and batch-processing applications, troubleshoot production issues, maintain non-production environments, and coordinate application releases.
  • The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a large enterprise environment and collaborating with product managers, business analysts, architects, QA teams, infrastructure teams, release management teams, and offshore development teams.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, develop, maintain, and enhance enterprise mainframe applications using COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, and related technologies.
  • Analyze business and technical requirements and recommend scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.
  • Develop and support CICS online transactions and COBOL-based batch-processing applications.
  • Create, update, and troubleshoot JCL jobs and enterprise batch workflows.
  • Develop and maintain DB2 programs, queries, stored procedures, and database-related components.
  • Work with VSAM datasets and ensure application data accuracy and integrity.
  • Use Easytrieve to develop and maintain reports, data extracts, and batch-processing programs.
  • Monitor and support Control-M schedules, production jobs, dependencies, and batch-processing workflows.
  • Troubleshoot application failures, database issues, batch-processing errors, and testing-environment problems.
  • Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement permanent corrective solutions.
  • Manage non-production environments, including environment refreshes, deployments, configuration updates, and post-migration validation.
  • Coordinate releases and production implementations with QA, infrastructure, release management, change management, and offshore teams.
  • Use Endevor or similar source-control and deployment tools to manage application changes.
  • Perform mainframe debugging, performance analysis, code reviews, and technical validation.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, user guides, and knowledge-base articles.
  • Serve as a technical subject-matter expert for assigned mainframe applications.
  • Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical-design discussions, code reviews, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
  • Mentor junior developers through technical coaching, knowledge sharing, and cross-training.
  • Provide on-call production support as required for mission-critical applications.

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 5+ years of experience developing, maintaining, enhancing, and supporting enterprise mainframe applications.
  • Strong hands-on experience with:
    • COBOL
    • CICS - Customer Information Control System
    • DB2
    • JCL - Job Control Language
    • VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method
    • Easytrieve/EZtrieve
  • Strong experience with enterprise batch processing and production job support.
  • Experience troubleshooting mainframe applications, batch jobs, databases, and production incidents.
  • Experience with Control-M scheduling, workflow management, and production job monitoring.
  • Experience with Endevor or a comparable mainframe source-control and deployment tool.
  • Experience using mainframe debugging and performance-analysis tools.
  • Experience supporting multiple enterprise applications in a large, cross-functional environment.
  • Experience coordinating with offshore development and support teams.
  • Strong analytical, debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
  • Ability to prioritize competing assignments and deliver solutions within project deadlines.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to mentor junior developers and support continuous process improvement.
  • Willingness to participate in on-call production support.
  • Ability to work onsite five days per week in the Midvale/Salt Lake City, Utah area.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience supporting banking, financial services, insurance, government, or other highly regulated enterprise applications.
  • Experience modernizing or improving legacy mainframe applications.
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery practices.
  • Experience with release management, change management, audit support, and production-readiness activities.
  • Experience improving application performance, batch-processing efficiency, automation, and operational reliability.

Required Competencies
Competency
Importance
Proficiency
Customer Information Control System - CICS
Required
Experienced
Common Business-Oriented Language - COBOL
Required
Experienced
IBM Database 2 - DB2
Required
Experienced
Easytrieve/EZtrieve
Required
Experienced
Job Control Language - JCL
Required
Experienced
Virtual Storage Access Method - VSAM
Required
Experienced
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