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Mainframe CICS COBOL Developer

United States, Philadelphia Employment contract 87120.00 - 181500.00 USD / Year · Job Posted June 16, 2026
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Job Description

We are currently seeking a Mainframe CICS COBOL Developer - REMOTE to join our team in Philadelphia, New Jersey (US-NJ), United States (US).

Job Responsibility

  • Use Cobo, CICS to design, build, test, and deploy scalable mainframe applications for logistics operations like order processing, warehouse management, and shipment tracking
  • Create and maintain responsive user interfaces (UIs) for logistics applications using CICS
  • Write complex SQL queries for DB2 and perform database design and optimization
  • Develop and implement event-driven data pipelines using TD and TS queses for real-time data processing and communication between screens
  • Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
  • Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospective meetings to track progress and plan future tasks within an Agile/Scrum framework
  • Collaborate with business analysts, UI/UX designers, and QA testers to define and deliver new features for logistics applications
  • Guide and mentor junior developers

Requirements

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in Cobol + CICS development, including the design, development, and deployment of enterprise applications
  • 5+ years of experience working with Cobol and developing batch process
  • 5+ years experience building responsive front-end user interfaces using CICS BMS macros
  • Must reside in the US

Nice to have

  • Direct experience integrating with and interfacing to legacy COBOL systems
  • Proficiency in database design, SQL optimization, and direct experience with DB2
  • Past experience with COBOL mainframe or with COBOL to Java modernization
  • SAP experience

What we offer

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Flexible spending or health savings account
  • Life and AD&D insurance
  • Short and long term disability coverage
  • Paid time off
  • Employee assistance
  • 401k program with company match

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