Senior COBOL Developer

Project overview

Within the Life Insurance (Savings and Retirement) core business, developed in COBOL (processing) and EGL (screens and SOAP service exposure), in an IBMi environment, the experienced developer participates in the Run, corrective maintenance, and evolution of the application (business projects) in coordination with a Lead Developer and the Head of the Life Management Information Systems domain.

MUST HAVE — Essential (mastery expected from the start)

In this context, the developer will be responsible for the following activities:

> Carrying out impact studies related to business evolutions (requirements expression)

> Estimating implementation efforts

> Development of SQL scripts (DB2) for schema modification, data recovery, and extractions

> Development of processing (SQLCBLLE)

> Development of UIs and services (EGL) (Real mastery is a strong asset; otherwise, a very good COBOL profile with a proven ability to quickly acquire skills in EGL may be considered)

> Independently defines unit test scenarios to be performed manually or industrialized

> Independently defines the data sets to be used in their tests

> Ensures the writing of technical documentation

> Co-writes deployment and processing execution/recovery procedures with operations

> Handling of bug tickets and implementation of fixes

> Handling of support requests (extractions)

> Knowledge of the life insurance business (back-office, contract management) or, failing that, a real appetite for understanding and mastering the functional aspects

NICE TO HAVE — Assets and expected in the long term

> Identifies and contributes to the reduction of technical debt

> Proposes and implements industrialization and tooling initiatives (tests and recurring extractions)

Expected deliverables:

• Design:
• Development:
• Unit tests:
• Documentation:
• Acceptance / Run:
• Functional knowledge of life insurance:
• Continuous improvement:
• Technical design documents
• Operations manual
• Unit test plan

Project details

• Start: 2026-11-16
• Duration: 12 mois
• Location: 75001 PARIS, FR
• Languages: French