With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Senior Cobol Engineer (Application Support)The PPB Banking Division is looking for a Senior Cobol Developer to join our PPB Core Banking Technology Support team.
Job Description
The successful applicant will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing applications developed in COBOL, ensuring high system availability, and resolving production incidents in a timely manner.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide production support for COBOL-based applications, including issue investigation and resolution.
- Analyze and troubleshoot system problems, providing timely and efficient fixes.
- Participate in root cause analysis and implement long-term solutions to recurring issues.
- Enhance and maintain legacy COBOL applications to meet evolving business requirements.
- Work collaboratively with QA, analysts, and other developers to deliver robust solutions.
- This position includes 24/7 standby responsibilities on a rotational basis
Key critical skills required:
- Cobol Programmer, at least 5 years' experience (Mainframe)
- JCL skills required, at least 5 years' experience
- Intermediate to Expert level experience in IMS & DB2 Databases
- TSO/ISPF, ISPW, Code Pipeline is required. Easytrieve will be an added advantage
- Experience in supporting and troubleshooting production environments.
- Familiarity with batch and real-time processing.
- Knowledge of change control (SNOW) and version management tools
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information TechnologyAbsa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of COBOL programming experience on mainframes
- At least 5 years of JCL experience
- Intermediate to expert experience with IMS and DB2 databases
- Experience with TSO/ISPF, ISPW, and Code Pipeline
- Experience supporting and troubleshooting production environments
- Familiarity with batch and real-time processing
- Knowledge of change control and version management tools, including SNOW
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology
- Easytrieve experience
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Absa Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Absa Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Absa Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical aid, group life, disability, and funeral cover are described as comprehensive, with features such as terminal‑illness advances and beneficiary grocery benefits. Wellness and assistance offerings support overall financial and personal wellbeing.
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Retirement Support — A pension fund and group retirement arrangements are positioned as core benefits within fixed remuneration. Retirement coverage is embedded alongside other protections as part of standard employment.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee share‑ownership (eKhaya) and equity‑linked awards broaden wealth‑sharing, with dividends or cash‑equivalent participation in some markets. This provides longer‑term value beyond base pay.
Absa Group Insights
What We Do
Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond. We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.
