Senior COBOL Developer

Senior COBOL DeveloperOxfordshire / Hybrid (1-day per week in office)Easily commutable on train from Birmingham, Coventry and London£55k - £65k + Corporate benefitsA long-established software business is hiring a Senior COBOL Developer to maintain and support its core platform during a long-term migration project. You will work on a substantial estate of business-critical COBOL applications running the business day to day, alongside an active programme of enhancements, regulatory updates and performance work.You will work in a small, Agile development team but take the lead on the COBOL work. The role is hands-on, mixing new development, BAU enhancement, production support and code archaeology across the legacy estate.What you will be doing:Writing new COBOL programs and enhancing existing ones across the platformOwning batch processing and online transactions, working across copybooks, sort utilities and file handlersCode archaeology and data analysis across legacy modulesSupporting release management and code promotion across environmentsWorking with the wider team to prepare modules for the migration workstreamMentoring junior team members and helping shape technical standardsYour experience will ideally include:Multiple years of hands-on COBOL development on a real production estateAcu COBOL / Acucorp / extend experience is a huge plus. Comparable experience with Micro Focus COBOL (Net Express, Visual COBOL, Enterprise Developer), RM COBOL or another distributed COBOL ..... full job details .....