Software Developer - COBOL to Java Conversion in London

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

Your Role And Responsibilities

As an IBM Application Architect, you directly help clients transform their business and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and

vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison

among business partners, technical resources, and project stakeholders.

Your Role And Responsibilities

The position will focus primarily on the delivery of the Software Conversion projects – using automated refactoring with CTU. The work involves

responsibilities such as maintaining the Java support library, integrating new libraries, solution customization, and building automation around

processes.

What You’ll Need To Do

Design Java solutions for modernizing legacy applications

Problem solving, including helping others

Write well designed, testable code

Deliver solutions within the fast-paced project lifecycle.

Spend most of the time on technical/coding activities, occasionally some team coaching activities.

Development is done mostly on Windows machines, and CTU is built on eclipse

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

7+ years' experience of Java Development

Experience with Java libraries (Spring Framework, Guava, Apache Commons, Guice / Dependency Injection, JPA)

Good SQL / ORM/ Relational Databases knowledge

MVS / COBOL / JCL

Practical skills in CI/CD – some of Git, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Jenkins, Jira

Good command of Test-Driven Development

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Cloud /Kubernetes

Performance Tuning

Compilation technologies / ANTLR / XText