Cobol Developer

Cobol Developer
Location: Remote with some travel to the Telford office (could be once each month, probably less)
Permanent / Full Time
£40k - £50k + benefits package
As a trusted, approved and preferred recruitment partner to this prestigious consultancy organisation, we have been asked to assist in the recruitment of a number of a Cobol Developer to join their leading innovative team. Our client offers excellence in careergrowth, professional development, and a coveted personalised benefits package.
You will be joining a rapidly expanding team, working at the forefront of technology.
The area you will be working in provides an end-to-end service for creating and maintaining IT products based upon the COBOL & CA GEN toolset (formally known as COOL:Gen)
By bringing all the delivery capability together, consolidated under one management team, allows them to maximise the use of skills, knowledge and resources.
This is to drive for greater efficiency and effectiveness to meet the changing needs of clients, whilst maintaining the excellent delivery standards that they have already set.
You will be working within a Development team, and may be involved in development of new products and maintenance of existing products.
Carrying out development in accordance with the agreed requirements and development standards
Testing of products in accordance with the test strategy to ensure that they are fit for purpose
Assisting the Scrum Master in examining packages of work and giving realistic timescales for completion of work allocated within agreed time, cost and quality criteria and providing progress reports on assigned work as required
Management and control of problems and change within their area of responsibility as requested by the Scrum Master, including negotiation with other teams as necessary
Prompt escalation of problems, issues and risks as necessary
Playing an active part in Process improvement, awareness of and compliance with all relevant quality processes and procedures, including completion of all the specified quality records.
As a Developer, you'll be tasked with a wide range of responsibilities so we're looking for someone with the following skills:

- Gen Development including Batch, Server and Client
- Oracle and Sql
- PL/SQL
- UNIX, UNIX shell scripting
- Full knowledge of the development lifecycle
- Awareness of Risk, Change & Problem Management
- Knowledge of Guardien as change management tool
- Knowledge of Jira/Confluence
- Awareness of Agile and Scrum methodology
We are looking for someone with a good level of GEN development experience
Good written and verbal communication skills, Problem solving and creativity skills, Honesty and Integrity, Eagerness to learn, Drive and energy.
Our client understands that everyone has varied lives and they want you to have a great work-life balance. So, where possible, their Work Life Harmony policy will help you to work flexibly and juggle your work and home life.
Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.