Cobol Developer
Recru-it
- R Undisclosed
- Permanent Senior position
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Gauteng
- Posted 27 Mar 2026 by Recru-it
- Expires in 29 days
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Job 2636156 - Ref PE011548
About the position
- Design, develop, and maintain eRegister application using the COBOL programming language.
- Create, modify, and test the code and scripts that allow eRegister to run.
- Monitor system performance and proactively identifying potential issues to prevent downtime.
- Conduct periodical data backups and ensure that backups are adequately secured.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of Annual Performance Plan, Annual Operational Plan and Departmental ICT strategy
- Coordinate organization maintenance and support associated with the in-house developed application and associated matters
- Perform data analysis specific to information that impacts on the in-house developed
- Coordinate the preparation and other associated activities for the cleansing, preparation and migration of the data on the Nurse Register to any other application which the company may implement -SQL target database
- Develop and reviews policies, standard operating procedures, frameworks, internal controls and systems within area of specialization
- Ensure systems documentation is generated and kept up to date
- Implement approved changes as per change control processes
- Maintain and support existing applications
- Manage risk for the areas of responsibility within the company
- Investigate and resolve complex systems issues across the application
- Participate in database design activities
- Manage, control/drive or participate in ad hoc projects that arise from time to time
- Perform ad hoc tasks as delegated by the line manager/ supervisor including asset management responsibilities on an interim basis
- Perform periodical reporting in line with company’s reporting schedule
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND ADDED ADVANTAGE REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in COBOL development
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Mainframe disciplines (AS400 & IBM I-Series/5)
- Experience with Inter-form/400 advantageous
- Experience with Mocha Soft Screen Emulator and Printer Emulator advantageous
- Experience with payment engines advantageous
- 5 years of experience in SQL and DB2/400
- Experience of development of interfaces with other systems
- Data cleansing and migration from COBOL to SQL
- Data base optimization experience
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- Job knowledge
- Technical skills
- Acceptance of responsibility
- Quality of work
- Reliability
- Initiative
- Communication
- Interpersonal relationships
- Flexibility
- Design, develop, and maintain eRegister application using the COBOL programming language.
- Create, modify, and test the code and scripts that allow eRegister to run.
- Monitor system performance and proactively identifying potential issues to prevent downtime.
- Conduct periodical data backups and ensure that backups are adequately secured.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of Annual Performance Plan, Annual Operational Plan and Departmental ICT strategy
- Coordinate organization maintenance and support associated with the in-house developed application and associated matters
- Perform data analysis specific to information that impacts on the in-house developed
- Coordinate the preparation and other associated activities for the cleansing, preparation and migration of the data on the Nurse Register to any other application which the company may implement -SQL target database
- Develop and reviews policies, standard operating procedures, frameworks, internal controls and systems within area of specialization
- Ensure systems documentation is generated and kept up to date
- Implement approved changes as per change control processes
- Maintain and support existing applications
- Manage risk for the areas of responsibility within the company
- Investigate and resolve complex systems issues across the application
- Participate in database design activities
- Manage, control/drive or participate in ad hoc projects that arise from time to time
- Perform ad hoc tasks as delegated by the line manager/ supervisor including asset management responsibilities on an interim basis
- Perform periodical reporting in line with company’s reporting schedule
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND ADDED ADVANTAGE REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in COBOL development
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Mainframe disciplines (AS400 & IBM I-Series/5)
- Experience with Inter-form/400 advantageous
- Experience with Mocha Soft Screen Emulator and Printer Emulator advantageous
- Experience with payment engines advantageous
- 5 years of experience in SQL and DB2/400
- Experience of development of interfaces with other systems
- Data cleansing and migration from COBOL to SQL
- Data base optimization experience
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- Job knowledge
- Technical skills
- Acceptance of responsibility
- Quality of work
- Reliability
- Initiative
- Communication
- Interpersonal relationships
- Flexibility
Desired Skills:
- 5+ Cobol Dev exp
- 5+ Mainframe disciplines
- 5+ SQL and DB2/400
- migration from COBOL to SQL
- IBM technologies
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