Specialist Cobol Engineer (Application Support)
Absa Group Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Financial Services · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The successful candidate will provide production support for COBOL-based applications, including investigating and resolving system incidents. They will also maintain and enhance legacy applications while participating in root cause analysis to ensure high system availability.
What they look for
Requirements
Applicants must have at least 5 years of experience in COBOL programming and JCL, along with intermediate to expert knowledge of IMS and DB2 databases. A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology is required for this role.
Full description
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Senior Cobol Engineer (Application Support)
The PPB Banking Division is looking for a Senior Cobol Developer to join our PPB Core Banking Technology Support team.
Job Description
The successful applicant will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing applications developed in COBOL, ensuring high system availability, and resolving production incidents in a timely manner.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide production support for COBOL-based applications, including issue investigation and resolution.
- Analyze and troubleshoot system problems, providing timely and efficient fixes.
- Participate in root cause analysis and implement long-term solutions to recurring issues.
- Enhance and maintain legacy COBOL applications to meet evolving business requirements.
- Work collaboratively with QA, analysts, and other developers to deliver robust solutions.
- This position includes 24/7 standby responsibilities on a rotational basis
Key critical skills required:
- Cobol Programmer, at least 5 years' experience (Mainframe)
- JCL skills required, at least 5 years' experience
- Intermediate to Expert level experience in IMS & DB2 Databases
- TSO/ISPF, ISPW, Code Pipeline is required. Easytrieve will be an added advantage
- Experience in supporting and troubleshooting production environments.
- Familiarity with batch and real-time processing.
- Knowledge of change control (SNOW) and version management tools
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
