Senior COBOL Developer - 100% Remote Mainframe Expert

BairesDev; Bogotá; Remote; COP 389,395,000 - 584,093,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

USD or local currency compensation

Home office setup

Flexible hours

Paid parental leave

Generous vacation & holidays

Job summary

BairesDev is seeking a Senior COBOL Developer to maintain and modernize mission-critical IBM mainframe applications in banking and insurance sectors. You will connect legacy logic with modern requirements and ensure high-volume processing stability.

You will design, develop, and optimize COBOL programs for batch and online environments, work with CICS, DB2, JCL, and VSAM, and produce thorough documentation. This is 100% remote with flexible hours and USD or local currency compensation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience with COBOL development.
• Experience maintaining and modernizing COBOL applications on IBM mainframes.
• Proficiency with CICS, DB2, and JCL in mainframe environments.
• Strong VSAM knowledge for batch and online processing.
• Advanced English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain COBOL programs for both batch and online mainframe environments.
• Optimize mainframe application performance using CICS, DB2, and VSAM for large-scale data transactions.
• Analyze and troubleshoot legacy code to resolve production issues, job failures, and system abends.
• Modernize legacy systems by developing interfaces, data feeds, and integration processes with newer technologies.
• Develop and manage JCL jobs to automate and streamline mainframe batch processing workflows.
• Produce comprehensive technical documentation, including program specifications and job flow diagrams.

Skills

COBOL Development

Mainframe Experience

English Proficiency

Tools

CICS

DB2

JCL

VSAM

Job description

BairesDev is seeking a Senior COBOL Developer to maintain and modernize mission-critical IBM mainframe applications in banking and insurance sectors. You will connect legacy logic with modern requirements and ensure high-volume processing stability.

You will design, develop, and optimize COBOL programs for batch and online environments, work with CICS, DB2, JCL, and VSAM, and produce thorough documentation. This is 100% remote with flexible hours and USD or local currency compensation.