COBOL Developer - Social Security Administration

Full-time COBOL Developer opportunity with the Social Security Administration. Are you ready to power the digital backbone of America? SSA’s technical team is looking for business systems application developers to join us in delivering high-performance solutions on our world-class, enterprise-grade infrastructure, running over 424,000 MIPS of processing power. Whether you’re a seasoned COBOL expert or an early-career developer ready to master mission-critical systems, this is your chance to help shape the future of digital services for over 330 million Americans.

Warrior Tribe Consulting is a placement firm directly linked to the hiring team for this contract. We’ll call you personally, prepare your federal resume for you, and guide you through the full process - at no charge to you. Our goal is to get you placed on this contract.

Forget everything you think you know about COBOL - this isn’t your father’s programming language. The latest COBOL release is packed with modern features, and SSA’s COBOL development environment leverages cutting-edge Generative AI-driven coding tools to accelerate modernization of our most strategic business applications.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain high-performance business applications using modern COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM, and IDMS on our enterprise server platform
• Optimize SQL queries and data management in DB2 databases
• Implement and support batch processing jobs with advanced job scheduling and monitoring tools
• Engineer data storage and retrieval solutions using VSAM
• Build and support Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems using CICS and TSQ
• Collaborate with business analysts, QA, and fellow developers; participate in code reviews
• Actively explore and apply AI-driven tools and technologies to improve development efficiency and application capabilities

• Specialized experience designing, developing, and maintaining mainframe applications using COBOL, CICS, VSAM, and JCL
• Experience supporting data integration/migration with DB2, SQL, and IDMS (required - IMS DB/DC experience does not substitute)
• Experience with legacy system architecture/modernization
• For senior levels: experience providing technical guidance to teams and leading modernization initiatives
• U.S. Citizenship required