Senior COBOL Developer - Enterprise Applications
First seen by Alion on Aug 19, 2026.
About the Role:
SG IT is looking for an experienced Senior COBOL Developer to join our technology team and contribute to enterprise-grade, mission-critical applications.
Key Skills & Requirements:
- 8+ years of strong hands-on COBOL development experience.
- Solid experience in mainframe-based enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of application development, enhancement, maintenance, and production support.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to analyse business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
- Experience working on large-scale, mission-critical applications.
- Good understanding of SDLC and software development practices.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong stakeholder collaboration and teamwork abilities.
- Ability to work independently and effectively with distributed/remote teams.
- Banking / Financial Services experience is highly preferred.
- Experience with high-volume transaction processing environments will be an advantage.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, enhance, and maintain COBOL-based enterprise applications.
- Analyse business and functional requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Develop efficient, scalable, and maintainable COBOL programs.
- Perform code reviews, unit testing, debugging, and defect resolution.
- Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely technical solutions.
- Work closely with Business Analysts, Product Owners, QA, and other technical teams.
- Participate in requirement analysis, technical design, development, testing, and deployment activities.
- Support application releases and production implementation activities.
- Identify opportunities for application performance improvement and modernization.
- Ensure adherence to coding standards, development processes, and quality practices.
- Prepare and maintain technical documentation as required.
- Collaborate with international stakeholders and distributed teams to ensure successful delivery.
- Take ownership of assigned modules and deliverables while meeting project timelines.
Skills
COBOL, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise IT Solution, Mainframe, Troubleshooting, System Support