Exciting Remote Cobol Developer with Hogan contract opportunity. The role involves designing, coding, testing, debugging, and supporting COBOL programs for batch and online (CICS) processing. The developer will also be responsible for developing and maintaining JCL for job scheduling, scheduling jobs via Control-M or CA-7, and integrating Mainframe applications with Hogan platforms such as assessment engines and reporting modules. Additionally, the position requires performing unit testing, conducting code reviews, and collaborating with QA to drive defects to resolution. Troubleshooting production incidents, performing root-cause analysis, and implementing permanent fixes are also key responsibilities. The developer will tune COBOL, DB2, and JCL jobs for optimal throughput and resource utilization, participate in Agile ceremonies (daily standups, backlog grooming, sprint demos), and author and maintain technical design documents, run books, and support procedures. Liaising with business analysts, project managers, and operations teams to deliver on time is essential.