Remote: TXSeries Cobol / CICS Application Developer

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Overview

Remote
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Able to Provide Sponsorship

Skills

TXSeries
CICS
Cobol
AIX
Linux

Job Details

Role :

As a TXSeries CICS Application Developer, you will be responsible for enhancing, maintaining, and modernizing critical business applications developed in C and running on IBM TXSeries with CICS. You will work closely with infrastructure and cloud teams to transition these workloads to hybrid or cloud-native platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift or HCI environments.

Key Responsibilities :

  • Analyze, maintain, and enhance applications developed in C using EXEC CICS commands.
  • Understand and work with TXSeries CICS region configuration and transaction flows.
  • Recompile CICS-based C applications for modern Linux environments.
  • Design and implement solutions to containerize or replat form legacy transactional workloads.
  • Migrate CICS application logic to modern microservices or API-based architecture where appropriate.
  • Collaborate with architects, DBAs, and MQ teams to ensure end-to-end transaction flow.
  • Implement logging, observability, and CI/CD practices for C-based transaction apps."
  • Should be able to understand COBOL programs specially datatypes and must modify as required.
  • Should have platform understanding of AIX and Linux especially with network byte ordering.
  • Understanding of 32-bit and 64-bit COBOL types.
  • COBOL Debugging skills.

Must have skills:

  • Scripting.
  • TXSeries/CICS application programming.
  • Working experience with Linux.
  • Working experience with products like DB2/Oracle/MQ.
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