COBOL Developer

Required Skills & Experience

-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.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

-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.

Job Description

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.