COBOL Developer – ABS Platform

Consort Group; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Consort Group seeks an ABS Cobol Developer to join our Portugal team, contributing to the ABS legacy platform for securities settlement and corporate actions for the UK market. You will translate business requirements into robust COBOL solutions, maintain code, and help modernize with AI-assisted tooling and CI/CD practices.

You will collaborate with analysts and developers in a fast-paced, global environment, ensuring security, reliability and performance of critical financial systems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong expertise in Micro Focus COBOL.
• Experience working with legacy applications and codebases.
• Experience in an Agile environment is desirable.
• Previous experience in the financial sector is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into clear technical specifications.
• Develop and maintain legacy COBOL code on the ABS platform.
• Use AI-assisted tools to analyse, understand and safely refactor existing code.
• Identify impacted components by mapping functional specifications to the codebase.
• Contribute to unit and integration tests.
• Support adoption of AI-driven data validation and modern development practices.
• Contribute to CI/CD implementation and monitoring solutions.
• Maintain and evolve COBOL components while preserving business logic.
• Analyse and safely modify impacted components.
• Support acceptance-test planning and execution.
• Monitor system performance and contribute to security and reliability.

Skills

COBOL development

Agile development

Legacy systems

DevOps practices

Git version control

Tools

PowerHouse 4GL

Ansible

ToolChain

Job description

Every moment counts. Especially those you live to the fullest. Welcome to Consort Group.

For over 30 years, Consort Group has been helping companies leverage their data and infrastructure. It is backed by two leaders, Consortis and Consortia, and places people and social responsibility at the heart of its values.

This is your future team

Established in 2021, Consort Portugal supports the strategic offshoring choices of our clients, particularly in Europe, and brings our expertise in infrastructure services to the Portuguese market. With a team of around 45 employees, our Service Center based in Porto is developing a dynamic nearshore business, offering the French and European markets an environment of excellence and high potential.

ABS Cobol Developer

This is your mission

Within the Banking Services environment, you will contribute to the development and maintenance of the ABS legacy platform, which supports securities settlement, conservation and corporate-action processing for the UK market.

Working closely with business analysts, you will translate business requirements into robust COBOL solutions while ensuring the reliability, security and performance of the existing platform.

You will also contribute to the modernization of the platform by using AI-assisted development tools, modern testing practices, CI/CD pipelines and monitoring solutions.

Build side

• Translate business needs into clear technical specifications
• Develop and maintain legacy COBOL code on the ABS platform
• Use AI-assisted tools to analyse, understand and safely refactor existing code
• Identify impacted components by mapping functional specifications to the codebase
• Contribute to the design and implementation of unit and integration tests
• Support the adoption of AI-driven data validation and modern development practices
• Contribute to CI/CD implementation and the introduction of modern monitoring solutions

Run side

• Maintain and evolve existing COBOL components while preserving business logic
• Analyse and safely modify impacted components
• Support acceptance-test planning and execution
• Monitor system performance and contribute to improving security and reliability
• Document changes and maintain technical documentation
• Manage version control and ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the legacy platform

This is your background

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience
• Strong expertise in Micro Focus COBOL
• Experience working with legacy applications and codebases
• Experience working in an Agile environment is desirable
• Previous experience in the financial sector is desirable

This is your expertise

• Micro Focus COBOL - required
• PowerHouse (4GL) - desirable
• Eloquence (Marxmeier) - desirable
• DevOps tools such as Ansible and ToolChain - desirable
• Git version control - desirable
• AI-assisted code analysis and refactoring tools
• Unit and integration testing
• CI/CD pipelines
• Monitoring and data validation solutions
• Security and regulatory compliance

Your Language Skills

• English - Expert level, written and spoken
• Portuguese - Expert level

This is your way of working

• Results-oriented
• Collaborative mindset
• Autonomous and able to work independently
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced global environment
• Strong team player
• Flexible and adaptable
• Clear and objective communication

This is our commitment

• Attentive and human onboarding
• Close management support
• Continuous access to training
• Concrete commitments to inclusion, equality and solidarity
• A comprehensive HR package
• A culture of feedback and meaningful projects

Good to know

Location: Lisbon

Contract: Permanent/ B2B

Job category: Application / Software Development / Mainframe / COBOL

What you will do here, you won't do anywhere else.

This moment is yours.