COBOL Developer

5 days ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time


Minimum requirements:

  • Type of Qualification: First Degree
  • Field of Study: Information Studies
  • Type of Qualification: First Degree
  • Field of Study: Information Technology
  • Software Engineering Technology 5-7 years
  • Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.

Primary Skills:

  • Mainframe experience 5 8 years
  • COBOL programming 5 8 years experience
  • Job Control Language (JCL)
  • DB2 database
  • Knowledge around mainframe batch scheduling and processing
  • Availability to do callout in 24 x 7 environment
  • Knowledge of Toolsets: REMEDY, JIRA, Confluence, ISPW an advantage

Technical Competencies:

  • Agile Development
  • Debugging and Fixing Software
  • DEVOPS
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • IT Applications
  • Testing (unit, regression, integration)
  • Write Code

Responsibilities:

  • To design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor programs/scripts.
  • Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result. 
  • To monitor and report on own progress and proactively identify issues related to software development activities. 
  • To propose practical solutions to resolve issues. 
  • To collaborate in reviews of work with others as appropriate.


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