Senior COBOL Developer (3 month project)

Intetics Inc., a global technology company providing custom software application development, distributed professional teams, software product quality assessment, and “all-things-digital” solutions, is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior COBOL Developer to join our dynamic team on a full-time basis.

The role involves working with complex legacy applications, batch processes, and integrations supporting high‑availability financial operations. The developer will collaborate with analysts, architects, QA, and cross‑functional teams to ensure system stability, data accuracy, and continuous modernization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain COBOL applications in both batch and online environments.
• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into robust and maintainable COBOL program logic.
• Modify and optimize existing COBOL programs, ensuring efficiency, performance, and compliance with financial processing needs.
• Handle daily batch cycles and real‑time processing, including JCL execution, troubleshooting, abend resolution, and performance tuning.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, ensuring system availability and minimal downtime for mission‑critical platforms.
• Implement data interfaces and integrations, especially with financial / credit‑risk scoring systems, DB2 or other relational databases.
• Write technical documentation, pseudo‑code, and update system specifications when implementing new features or changes.
• Collaborate with QA teams on functional, regression, and integration testing; support test cycles and defect resolution.
• Participate in system modernization efforts, including migration of COBOL modules, integration with modern APIs, or hybrid mainframe–cloud scenarios.
• Ensure code compliance with security, data quality, and regulatory standards, especially applicable to financial and credit‑risk data.
• Contribute to Agile/Scrum ceremonies (refinement, planning, reviews) and collaborate closely with business stakeholders.

The role involves working with complex legacy applications, batch processes, and integrations supporting high‑availability financial operations. The developer will collaborate with analysts, architects, QA, and cross‑functional teams to ensure system stability, data accuracy, and continuous modernization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain COBOL applications in both batch and online environments.
• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into robust and maintainable COBOL program logic.
• Modify and optimize existing COBOL programs, ensuring efficiency, performance, and compliance with financial processing needs.
• Handle daily batch cycles and real‑time processing, including JCL execution, troubleshooting, abend resolution, and performance tuning.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, ensuring system availability and minimal downtime for mission‑critical platforms.
• Implement data interfaces and integrations, especially with financial / credit‑risk scoring systems, DB2 or other relational databases.
• Write technical documentation, pseudo‑code, and update system specifications when implementing new features or changes.
• Collaborate with QA teams on functional, regression, and integration testing; support test cycles and defect resolution.
• Participate in system modernization efforts, including migration of COBOL modules, integration with modern APIs, or hybrid mainframe–cloud scenarios.
• Ensure code compliance with security, data quality, and regulatory standards, especially applicable to financial and credit‑risk data.
• Contribute to Agile/Scrum ceremonies (refinement, planning, reviews) and collaborate closely with business stakeholders.

Must‑Have Skills

• 3–5+ years of experience as a COBOL Developer, ideally within banking, credit scoring, finance, or insurance.
• Strong knowledge of COBOL, including batch and online processing.
• Hands‑on experience with JCL (Job Control Language) and batch scheduling tools.
• Solid understanding of mainframe environments (z/OS, CICS, VSAM, DB2).
• Strong SQL knowledge and experience working with DB2 or MS SQL / Oracle in integrated financial systems.
• Ability to analyze large, legacy codebases and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Experience with SDLC, version control, and structured documentation.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem‑solving capability, and attention to detail.
• Ability to work in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working with business users and analysts.

Nice‑to‑Have Skills

• Exposure to credit bureau, scoring, financial risk systems, or enterprise B2B integrations.
• Familiarity with API integration, MQ/Message Queues, or modernization initiatives (e.g., migrating COBOL logic into microservices).
• Understanding of DevOps or CI/CD processes for mainframe systems.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks relevant to financial data (Basel, GDPR, PCI-DSS).
• Experience mentoring junior developers.

Soft Skills

Ownership mindset, reliability, and ability to support mission‑critical financial operations.

Capacity to work under pressure during release cycles and production support periods.

Work Arrangement & On-Site Conditions

• This position is designated as an international expert role, requiring the expert to be physically present in Bangladesh for the majority of the assignment
• The expert must be willing and able to temporarily relocate to Bangladesh for approximately 18 months, as on-site presence is essential for coordination with the Client, implementation teams, and government stakeholders
• Frequent travel within Bangladesh is expected during the rollout and scale-up stages
• The expert must also be prepared to travel within Bangladesh, especially during pilot deployment and scale-up phases