Cobol Developer  

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 733,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

What you’ll do:

• Design and develop legacy application modernization to modern platform
• Resolve complex legacy application modernization issues such as language translation issues, data conversion issues, conversion challenges and performance tuning
• Implement and oversee quality assurance processes to ensure that the modernized applications meet the required standards and specifications
• Conduct code and test reviews to ensure quality and adherence to modernization best practices
• Mentor junior developers by providing guidance on technical tasks

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Strong technical background and proficiency in IBM COBOL
• At least 2 years Development and /or Maintenance experience in either Mainframe and/or Distributed applications
• Strong problem-solving skills to address challenges and roadblocks that may arise during the modernization process
• Leadership skills to motivate and guide the development team, assign tasks, and ensure collaboration and communication within the team
• Capability to mentor team members, share knowledge, and facilitate training sessions to enhance the skill set of the development team

Nice to Have

• With experience in any of the following
• Relevant programming languages (Legacy languages - Assembler, PL1, Easytrieve, New IT languages - Java, Spring, Python)
• Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and Knowledge of cloud services, serverless architecture, and the ability to migrate applications to the cloud.
• Data and database conversion and migration
• DevOps principles and practices, including continuous integration, continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management and deployment
• Automated testing
• Knowledge with Agile methodologies, such as Scrum to ensure an iterative and adaptive approach to development.
• Knowledge in Microfocus, Technology Architecture or solutioning experience