Senior Cobol Developer

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services. 

 We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of  what we do: 

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner 
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business 
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK 
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW 
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW 

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!. 

Role Description

• Support the analysis and delivery of the organisation's migration from 32-bit to 64-bit COBOL and associated systems.
• Produce estimates for requirements where required.
• Develop new functionality and enhancements in line with agreed standards.
• Create functional design specifications and/or user stories.
• Follow code quality, data quality and unit testing standards.
• Identify and implement integration and automation tests as required.
• Participate in peer reviews.
• Support and mentor junior colleagues and facilitate knowledge sharing across the team.
• Provide system test support when code is migrated to System Test, including SIR resolution.
• Assist with test and production releases.
• Develop familiarity with business processes within the team's area of responsibility.
• Escalate technical challenges or blockers to team leads in a timely manner to support risk management and delivery planning.
• Work with project stakeholders as required.
• Contribute to project management activities including progress tracking and risk management.
• Maintain project information in planning and development tools, including Jira requirements and work logs.
• Collaborate with testers to ensure information is shared and expected functionality and timelines are understood.
• Conduct root cause analysis of issues and manage incident and defect tracking activities.
• Recommend and implement resolutions for production issues as required.

Essential Requirements

• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in standards-driven environments.
• Knowledge of project delivery methodologies and application development lifecycles, including waterfall, agile and hybrid approaches.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with stakeholders to understand and refine business requirements.
• Experience working effectively with application development teams, technical colleagues, testers, support teams and management.
• Experience working with coding languages relevant to the role.
• Experience working with relational databases such as SQL and Ingres.
• Familiarity with techniques for parsing and manipulating structured data formats including RDBMS, XML, JSON and text files.

Desirable Requirements

• Knowledge of taxation and/or customs processes, including registration, returns filing and payment processes.
• Experience working on projects with technologies and architectures comparable in complexity and scale.
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies such as Hadoop.

Technical Skills

Required

• COBOL
• UNIX
• SQL
• Relational Databases (Ingres / VectorWise)
• Unit / Integration Testing

Desirable

• Java
• Web Services
• C
• Salt
• Tuxedo
• XML
• Mule
• ETL Technologies
• OpenROAD

Additional Technologies

• Angular
• AngularJS
• Spring
• Hibernate
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• WebLogic
• Intalio
• JUnit

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability. 

• Day rate: €350-€400

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits 

• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme 

• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance 

• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Version 1 Pension with a 5% employee-matched contribution, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme 

• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more.  

• 24 days holiday allowance plus Public Holidays, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies 

• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat 

• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & quarterly Star Awards. 

• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes. 

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more. 

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer 

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity. 

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact [email protected]. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.

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