Job Description:

Job information VAX COBOL Lead Sr Programmer from the Company TESTQ Technologies, this latest VAX COBOL Lead Sr Programmer job vacancy is located in the city London located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Programmer field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

Job Responsibilities -

• Collaborate with the client, business, and user team for requirement discussions.
• Engage in knowledge acquisition, technical design, and estimation for fixes and enhancements.
• Actively participate in both functional and technical discussions with customer SMEs and tech leads.
• Coordinate work allocation and sync with the offshore development and QA team.
• Engage with customer business users for project prioritization and design discussions.
• Collaborate with the client user team to prioritize bug defects and changes.
• Reproduce the defects reported by the client.
• Expected to foster good team collaboration among other leads and BAS.
• Coordinate with the customer help desk to address complete infrastructure-related tasks and queries for both onsite and offshore teams.
• Work with the customer server administration team to manage implementation and change control tasks.
• Partner with developers to conduct root cause analysis and preliminary problem diagnosis.
• Technically lead the VAXVMS development team.
• Promptly report to onsite and offshore managers.
• Promptly report to customer stakeholders.
• Educate the team to ensure that the nature of defects and bugs is not repeated.
• Take full ownership of the technical landscape of the application during knowledge acquisition.
• Build a knowledge repository to assist the development and QA team in understanding business requirements.
• Define life cycle process templates and checklists.
• Conduct group design reviews with the customer team.
• Conduct group code reviews with the customer and offshore team.
• Reach out to the larger team for cross-functional knowledge sharing, training, and review.
• Engage with any customer team for resolution and clarification.

Candidate should have -

• 10 years of experience in COBOL programming and VAXVMS development
• Strong COBOL programming skills
• Extensive experience with VAXVMS operating system
• Familiarity with VAX COBOL compiler and related utilities
• Experience with VAXVMS file systems and database management
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with COBOL applications and VAXVMS systems
• Provide technical support to end users
• Develop, maintain, and enhance COBOL programs and applications running on VAXVMS
• Write tests and debug COBOL code according to specifications
• Develop and document code according to company standards
• Proficient in the VAXVMS operating system and its associated tools
• Familiar with VAX COBOL compiler and related utilities
• Experience with VAXVMS file systems and database management
• Experience with the ICMS tool and with RDB Relational Database

Preferred Skills -

• Experience with specific VAXVMS applications or industries
• Experience with other legacy technologies
• Experience with Agile development methodologies

Mandatory Skills -

Grafana, Angular, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, IIS Server, Java, JavaScript, JBoss, Jenkins, Jira Service Desk, Kafka, Kibana, Knowledge Management, Kubernetes, AppDynamics, major incident management, microservices, MongoDB, MS SQL Server, MSBI-SSRS, MySQL, AS/400, ASP.NET, PostgreSQL, Power BI, problem management, Python, React, ServiceNow ITSM, shell scripting, Splunk, Azure Cosmos DB, Spring Boot, Azure DevOps, Tomcat (Apache), VB.NET, WebSphere, Windows Server, Bash/Shell scripting, BMC Control-M, BMC Helix ITSM, Nginx, DB2-DB Administration, Prometheus, ServiceNow (Event Management), C, C#, C++, Flexcube technical PL/SQL, .NET Framework, Cassandra, ERP (JDA/PoS/PLM/Infor LN/JDE/Peoplesoft) testing, mainframe - Cobol/JCL, ServiceNow (ITOM ITSM and other) functional testing, Cognos Analytics, AWS DevOps Services, Oracle DB Administration, mainframe Autosys, Docker, Dynatrace, Elasticsearch, MS Excel, Unix/Linux scripting, Cognos Reporting, Crystal Reports

Keywords : London jobs
Closed Date : 2025-08-13