COBOL Developer

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., * 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., * 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., * 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

• 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.

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., Intetics Inc. is a leading American technology company providing custom software application development, distributed professional teams creation, software product quality assessment, and "all-things-digital" solutions built with SMAC, RPA, AI/ML, IoT, blockchain, and GIS/UAV/LBS technologies. Based on proprietary pioneering business models of Offshore Dedicated Team® and Remote In-Sourcing®, an advanced Technical Debt Reduction Platform (TETRA ) and measurable SLAs for software engineering, Intetics helps innovative organizations capitalize on global talent with our in-depth engineering expertise based on our Predictive Software Engineering framework. Intetics core strength lays in design of software products in conditions of incomplete specifications. We have extensive industry expertise in Education, Healthcare, Logistics, Life Sciences, Finance, Insurance, Communications, and custom ERP, CRM, Intelligent Automation and Geospatial solutions. Our advanced software engineering background and outstanding quality management platform, along with an unparalleled methodology for talent acquisition, team building and talent retention, guarantee that our clients receive exceptional results for their projects. At Intetics, our outcomes do not just meet clients expectations, they have been exceeding them for a quarter of a century. Intetics operates from multiple offices in the USA, Europe and Latin America, hiring the best talent available worldwide. Intetics is ISO 9001 (quality) and ISO 27001 (security) certified and a Microsoft Gold, Amazon, and UiPath Silver partner. The company's innovation and growth achievements are reflected in winning prestigious titles and awards, including Inc5000, Software 500, CRN 100, American Business, Deloitte Fast 50, European IT Excellence, Best European BPO, Stevie People's Choice, Clutch and ACQ5 Awards, IAOP Global Outsourcing 100 and Fortune Innovative 300 lists. You can find more information at https://intetics.com We invite you to join Intetics TEAM! Apply For This Job Do you still have some outstanding questions?