COBOL Developer

5+ years of professional COBOL development experience, ideally supporting financial services or trading systems. -Strong mainframe background, including COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, TSO/ISPF and related mainframe tools/technologies. -Production support experience in a high-volume environment, with strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills. -Able to work independently and directly with business users, balancing production support with development/delivery priorities. -Experience with trade capture, trade processing, or post-trade workflows, such as clearing, settlement or confirmations. -Experience with mainframe batch processing and scheduling tools. -Familiarity with modern/Java-based platforms, particularly when collaborating with teams migrating from legacy systems.

Insight Global is seeking two COBOL Engineers to join one of their top financial clients in NYC (onsite 5 days a week). These individuals will be joining the Global Banking and Markets Engineering team, focused on supporting a business-critical, high-volume securities Trade Capture and Trade Processing platform. The engineers will troubleshoot and resolve production issues, perform root-cause analysis, maintain and enhance COBOL programs and batch jobs, and develop new functionality based on business and client needs. They’ll also support testing/release activities and document existing system logic as functionality gradually transitions toward the newer platform.