COBOL Developer – ABS Platform & AI-Driven Modernization

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

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.