Senior COBOL Developer

Veriipro; Freeport (ME); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Veriipro in Maine is seeking a Senior COBOL Developer with strong mainframe experience and exposure to cloud technologies to support modernization and decommissioning initiatives. You will analyze, migrate, modernize, or retire legacy COBOL applications while ensuring business continuity and performance.

You will collaborate with architecture, cloud, and infrastructure teams to execute migration and decommissioning plans, and you will create documentation detailing dependencies, migration

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with COBOL development and mainframe applications.
• Experience supporting mainframe modernization, migration, or decommissioning projects.
• Ability to analyze legacy applications and identify migration, modernization, or retirement opportunities.
• Experience with cloud technologies and cloud migration initiatives.
• Strong understanding of application dependencies, interfaces, data flows, and legacy system architecture.
• Experience with application testing, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze existing COBOL/mainframe applications to determine migration, modernization, or retirement strategies.
• Support initiatives to move applications to cloud platforms, improve existing solutions, or decommission legacy functionality.
• Identify application dependencies, interfaces, data requirements, and potential migration risks.
• Develop, modify, and maintain COBOL applications as required during modernization initiatives.
• Collaborate with architecture, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to execute migration and decommissioning plans.
• Support data and application migration activities while ensuring system integrity and business continuity.
• Perform testing, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and production support.
• Create technical documentation for application architecture, dependencies, migration plans, and decommissioning activities.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, optimize, or eliminate legacy processes and applications.

Skills

COBOL development

Mainframe applications

Cloud technologies

Cloud migration

Dependencies/data flows

Testing/production support

Analytical/problem solving

Job description

We are seeking a Senior COBOL Developer with strong mainframe experience and exposure to cloud technologies to support mainframe modernization and decommissioning initiatives. The role will focus on analyzing, migrating, modernizing, or retiring legacy COBOL applications while ensuring business continuity and application performance.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with COBOL development and mainframe applications.
• Experience supporting mainframe modernization, migration, or decommissioning projects.
• Ability to analyze legacy applications and identify opportunities to migrate, modernize, or retire functionality.
• Experience with cloud technologies and cloud migration initiatives.
• Strong understanding of application dependencies, interfaces, data flows, and legacy system architecture.
• Experience with application testing, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Analyze existing COBOL/mainframe applications to determine migration, modernization, or retirement strategies.
• Support initiatives to move applications to cloud platforms, improve existing solutions, or decommission legacy functionality.
• Identify application dependencies, interfaces, data requirements, and potential migration risks.
• Develop, modify, and maintain COBOL applications as required during modernization initiatives.
• Collaborate with architecture, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to execute migration and decommissioning plans.
• Support data and application migration activities while ensuring system integrity and business continuity.
• Perform testing, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and production support.
• Create technical documentation for application architecture, dependencies, migration plans, and decommissioning activities.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, optimize, or eliminate legacy processes and applications.