You will become part of an experienced development and refactoring team. Your will work stand alone or with our client in the Netherlands. The team consists of solution architects, quality assurance engineers, product owners and business analists. Your tasks will, amongst others, consist of;

• Analyze and understand legacy COBOL codebase
• Debug and troubleshoot issues in existing applications
• Develop new features and enhancements
• Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to gather requirements
•  Optimize code for performance and efficiency

Ensure compliance with coding standards and best practices

Document code changes and maintain technical documentation

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Proven experience as a COBOL programmer (minimum 5 years)
• Familiarity with other legacy programming languages (e.g., Fortran, RPG, PL/I)
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities
• Ability to work independently and meet deadline

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with modernization efforts (e.g., migrating COBOL applications to newer platforms
• Knowledge of relational databases (e.g., DB2, SQL Server.