Remote COBOL Developer for z/OS Banking & Accounts

CAI; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 96,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Contract position

Job summary

CAI is seeking a Cobol Developer to build a new pooled-account structure inside a running z/OS core. This contract role offers remote work flexibility and engages you in end-to-end batch and online COBOL development in a financial context.

You will modify JCL, extend nightly and month-end cycles, and contribute to testing and documentation, with on-call coverage during initial production runs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Enterprise COBOL development in a z/OS environment.
• 5+ Years of Experience with NaturalOne; developing, debugging, and deploying.
• Experience with Natural programs, subprograms, and maps.
• 3+ years of JCL development and production support experience.
• 3+ years of experience with financial/accounting systems development or support including double-entry posting, balance/accrual maintenance, value dating, reconciliation, and month-end closeouts in a regulated environment.
• 3+ years of experience working with VSAM and Adabas including file design and performance behavior.
• 3+ years of experience with tracing undocumented logic through copybooks, call chains, and job streams.
• Degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Analyze the current account master, posting, and balance-maintenance programs to establish where composite reservoir accounts must be recognized, and document what you find.
• Design and code the new account type end to end: master file and table structures, account opening and closing, participant linkage, sweep and reverse-sweep logic, allocation and interest apportionment, and closing balance derivation.
• Modify batch COBOL programs and JCL and extend the nightly and month-end cycles to include the new processing without lengthening the batch window beyond agreed limits.
• Add new CRAs to the audit trail, exception reporting, and reconciliation controls the new function requires, working with accounting stakeholders on what must be evidenced.
• Produce test data, unit and regression test packs, and parallel-run comparisons against current production output; investigate every difference until it is explained.
• Support implementation, conversion of any in-scope existing accounts, and early-life production runs, including on-call cover during the first cycles.
• Leave behind program documentation, data-flow notes, and runbook updates that the support team can work from.

Skills

Cobol development

Batch & online

NaturalOne

JCL

VSAM

Adabas

Copybooks tracing

Financial systems familiarity

On-call support

Education

CS degree or related field

Tools

CA-7

REXX

Python

Java

Job description

CAI is seeking a Cobol Developer to build a new pooled-account structure inside a running z/OS core. This contract role offers remote work flexibility and engages you in end-to-end batch and online COBOL development in a financial context.

You will modify JCL, extend nightly and month-end cycles, and contribute to testing and documentation, with on-call coverage during initial production runs.