# Subcontractor-Cobol developer

Area(s) of responsibility D for COBOL developer Required Technical Skills: Strong hands-on experience with COBOL development Good knowledge of JCL, batch processing, and job scheduling Experience working with VSAM / flat files / Oracle DB (or other relational databases) Good exposure to mainframe utilities (SORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14 etc.) Strong understanding of file layouts, copybooks, and data transformations Experience performing impact analysis and code remediation Proficiency in debugging and resolving issues in large, complex mainframe applications Additional specific technical skills needed for D0 to F6 conversion: Strong experience handling field length changes in legacy mainframe systems during format conversions Expertise in analyzing copybook and file layout changes, including increases or decreases in field size Ability to identify and remediate field length dependencies across: o COBOL data definitions (PIC clauses, REDEFINES) o Database columns (DB2, relational DBs) o VSAM and flat file records Proficient in updating COBOL PIC definitions (alphanumeric and numeric fields) to align with new standard requirements Hands-on experience handling numeric vs alphanumeri

- **Id**: 3686101
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/birlasoft-subcontractor-cobol-developer-3>
- **Role**: Enterprise Apps
- **Role family**: Enterprise Apps
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hyderabad, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T14:58:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T18:10:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1586
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Enterprise Apps Implementation Partners, Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 59310
- **Name**: Birlasoft
- **Domain**: birlasoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/birlasoft>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.25
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 22
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **COBOL** — Optional: no
- **Db2** — Optional: no
- **JCL** — Optional: no
- **Oracle** — Optional: no
- **VSAM** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T14:58:19Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.902
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:7, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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