COBOL Developer

Deloitte • TRAFFIC • Not Specified, Not Specified, United Kingdom • 14h ago

At Deloitte, we make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, our profession, and in the wider society by delivering the solutions and insights they need to address their most complex business challenges.

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

AMS partner with Deloitte Ireland to support their contingent recruitment processes. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

On behalf of Deloitte, AMS are looking for a COBOL Developer for an initial 12-month contract based in Ireland with a negotiable hybrid working model (offices in Dublin).

Purpose of the role:

Join a major public sector organisation at the heart of Ireland's critical national services - delivered in partnership with Deloitte, a world-class consultancy.

This is an initial 12-month contract on a multi-year programme of work supporting some of the most critical legacy systems in the Irish public sector.
COBOL remains a highly niche and in-demand skillset, and opportunities like this - combining long-term contracting stability with national impact - are rare.

If you have COBOL experience, we strongly encourage you to send your CV as soon as possible to be considered!

What you'll do:

Produce estimates for requirements where
Code new developments and/or enhancements in line with standards.
Create functional design specifications and/or user
Adhere to code quality, data, and unit testing standards.
Identify and implement integration tests and automation tests as
Participation in peer reviews as required.
Supervise and coach junior resources and ensure knowledge transfer to other colleagues actively takes place.
Provide system test support when code is migrated to System Test (including SIR resolution).
Assist with test and live releases.
Develop familiarity with processes in the overall domain of the team's area of work.
Where technical challenges or blocks are identified within the team, ensure that team leads are made aware in a timely manner to support the management and triaging of delays or risks to the project.
Work with project stakeholders as
Ensure that any assigned tasks in development and planning tools related to project development tasks are updated e.
Updates to Jira requirements, work time logs, etc. for tracking purposes.
Collaborate with testers, ensuring that information is shared and testers are kept up to date on expected functionality and
Perform root cause analysis of issues and organise live incident tickets or bug
Provide / propose fixes, as required, to resolve live issues.

The skills you'll need:

Anyone with hands-on COBOL experience will be considered as a strong option for this role. In addition you should have:

Excellent written and oral communication.
Analytical and problem solving skills.
Experience working in standards driven environments.
Experience working effectively alongside application development and technical colleagues, testers, support teams and all levels of management.
Experience working with data using relational databases such as SQL and Ingres, and NoSQL frameworks such as Hadoop.
Familiarity with techniques for parsing and manipulating structured data formats, RDBMS, XML, JSON, text files, etc.

Next steps:

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

AMS, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business.

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