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# Software Developer COBOL

- **Company:** TARGOBANK AG & Co. KGaA
- **Location:** Duisburg, Germany
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Customer Information Control System (CICS), COBOL (Programming Language), Data Retrieval, IBM DB2, Job Control Language (JCL), IBM Mainframe, Software Engineering, Software Systems, SQL Databases, Freeform SQL, Information Technology
- **Published:** May 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=73d3fd5850db6ced

## About the Role

Do you have experience in SQL?

## Description

BANK.ECHT.ANDERS. That is what we strive for as an employer. For our IT unit - TARGO Technology GmbH - we are looking for people, who enjoy leveraging our customers' needs by developing innovative applications and services. You benefit from flat hierarchies, are welcome to raises your ideas and actively shape the future of our core banking system.

 * Ihre Aufgaben
 * Ihr Profil

 * Analyzing and extending existing software systems and applications in a heterogeneous, complex IT system environment based on an IBM mainframe architecture
 * Extending and optimising existing systems and applications using DB2, IMS and CICS
 * Software development with COBOL, SQL, JCL for mainframe software
 * Creating and maintaining complex SQL queries for data retrieval
 * Setting up automated batch processes within frameworks such as TWS/OPC
 * IT project management and stakeholder management
 * Creating and maintaining technical documentation for developed systems and applications


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