COBOL Performance Analyst

Computer Task Group, Inc•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

1d•Remote

About The Position

CTG is seeking a COBOL Performance Analyst for a client. The role focuses on analyzing and optimizing COBOL applications, SQL queries, and batch processing in a Micro Focus distributed runtime environment to improve performance and reduce resource utilization. The analyst will investigate application bottlenecks, memory issues, high-resource transactions, workload capacity, processing failures, and abnormal runtime behavior, and recommend sustainable solutions. The position also involves analyzing database-intensive workloads and transaction integrity, documenting findings and corrective actions, and collaborating with engineering, operations, quality assurance, and customer teams. Established security, change-control, testing, and documentation procedures must be followed. The role provides expert COBOL performance analysis and optimization; z/OS systems programming is outside its scope. The position is primarily remote, with occasional in-person customer meetings as required by project needs. The assignment duration is 12 months. Support for critical issues outside regular business hours, including weekend on-call support, may be needed. The expected base salary is $55.00 to $59.00 per hour, and a competitive benefit package is offered.

Requirements

Strong COBOL application development, performance tuning, and troubleshooting skills.
Experience analyzing SQL queries, database access patterns, and batch processing workloads.
Proficiency with performance monitoring, profiling, tracing, and diagnostic tools.
Knowledge of Micro Focus Enterprise Server and distributed application runtime environments.
Familiarity with Db2 or other relational databases, transaction processing, and data reconciliation.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and documentation skills.
Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, operations, QA, and customer teams.
Ability to support critical issues outside regular business hours, including weekend on-call support as needed.
Typically 5–10+ years of experience in COBOL application analysis, performance tuning, and troubleshooting within large enterprise, financial services, or government environments.
Demonstrated experience identifying and resolving application performance issues involving COBOL code, SQL queries, database processing, and batch workloads.
Experience using application monitoring, profiling, and diagnostic tools to investigate resource utilization and runtime performance.
Experience working in Micro Focus or comparable distributed COBOL runtime environments.
Familiarity with enterprise transaction processing, application capacity analysis, and performance testing.
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and ability to interact professionally with a diverse group.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Experience with IBM mainframe technologies such as z/OS, COBOL, Db2, CICS, JCL, and VSAM, as applicable to the application environment.

Responsibilities

Analyze and optimize COBOL application code, SQL queries, and batch processing in a Micro Focus distributed runtime environment.
Identify performance bottlenecks, memory issues, high-resource transactions, and inefficient batch workloads using profiling, monitoring, and diagnostic analysis.
Monitor application workloads, assess capacity requirements, and evaluate online and batch processing performance under varying workloads.
Investigate processing failures, performance anomalies, and abnormal runtime behavior; perform root-cause analysis and recommend sustainable solutions.
Review COBOL code, database access patterns, and data retrieval processes to improve processing efficiency and transaction performance.
Analyze database-intensive workloads, transaction integrity, and data reconciliation involving Db2 or other relational databases, as applicable.
Use Micro Focus Enterprise Server and distributed application profiling and diagnostic tools to trace issues and validate performance improvements.
Document findings, performance recommendations, and corrective actions while collaborating with engineering, operations, and quality assurance teams.
Follow established security, change-control, testing, and documentation procedures when conducting analysis or recommending application changes.
Support critical issues outside regular business hours, including weekend on-call support as needed.