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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

COBOL / Mainframe Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

  • R01 - R02 per month
  • Contract Senior position
  • Johannesburg
  • Posted 09 Jun 2026 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
  • Expires in 30 days
  • Job 2640503 - Ref 878000020503736
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About the position

We are seeking an experienced COBOL / Mainframe Developer to join our team and play a pivotal role in supporting and enhancing business-critical legacy systems within the financial services sector. This is a hands-on position focused on stability, performance, and the continuous evolution of core platforms that power essential operations.



You will work with COBOL in IBM z/OS environments, maintaining and optimising high-volume transactional systems — with a particular emphasis on employee benefits and retirement fund solutions. In addition to strong production support and troubleshooting responsibilities, this role offers meaningful involvement in modernisation and integration initiatives, helping to connect proven legacy systems with contemporary technologies including APIs, Java, .NET, and cloud platforms.


 
Responsibilities:


  • Maintain and enhance COBOL-based systems supporting critical business functions
  • Analyse business requirements and translate into technical solutions
  • Support production incidents, defect resolution, and system improvements
  • Participate in impact analysis, testing, and release cycles
  • Collaborate with BA’s, architects, and cross-functional teams
  • Contribute to modernisation initiatives where applicable.


Requirements
  • 5+ years COBOL development experience (recent, hands-on)
  • Strong experience in mainframe environments (IBM z/OS)
  • COBOL / ACUCOBOL
  • Experience working on Employee benefits, retirements funds, core transactional systems (e.g., banking, insurance, policy admin, payments)
  • Ability to analyse, maintain, and enhance existing legacy codebases and have strong troubleshooting and production support experience
  • Batch processing and high-volume transaction systems
  • Modernisation / integration projects (API, .NET, Java, cloud)
  • Experience working in Agile delivery environments
  • Prior experience in financial services (banking or insurance)




Desired Skills:

  • COBOL development
  • mainframe environments (IBM z/OS)
  • COBOL
  • ACUCOBOL

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

About The Employer:


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Dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals Sabenza iT is a South African registered business focusing on Finance, Engineering, SAP and general iT recruitment. We have over 18 years' experience in recruiting in South Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia and have worked with a number of large companies offering the best service. We at Sabenza iT understands the changing market and we mold our services around each of our client's needs to offer a personal service. Sabenza iT has forged strong relationships with both Clients and Consultants by ensuring both parties get the most out of every placement. Our Head Office is based in South Africa and we have a satellite office in the UK so that we can keep in contact with expats who may consider returning to South Africa and so that we can offer our services globally for Consultants looking to go to South Africa and Consultants who are looking for opportunities abroad. We at Sabenza recognize the difference it makes to maintain good client relationships and we are keeping our client base niche and manageable in order to give the best service possible. We have gained a good reputation in the market place and have built a very large network and database of consultants that we draw from for each role. We are able to send applications within 24 hours of receiving a role profile or spec. We use one of the best Database software tools available to keep our database up to date and very fast to search. Sabenza iT does not only use job-sites, we headhunt and we use our network to find our clients the right Candidates. We have a strong Facebook presence and we have over 12,000 LinkedIn connections. For further information, please visit our website www.sabenzait.co.za or call me at any time on Tel: 0330040131.

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