IT & Software

Associate Principal - System Management

LTM

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will lead VAXVMS COBOL development and support, shaping the technical landscape of legacy systems. You collaborate with client teams, offshore/dev QA groups, and SMEs to design, implement, and stabilize COBOL applications. You will own fixes, enhancements, and the knowledge base, driving quality and timely delivery within a multi-team environment. This opportunity combines leadership in a niche stack with hands-on coding and problem-solving at scale.

Responsibilities
  • Lead the VAXVMS development team and coordinate with offshore and onsite teams
  • Engage with client business users for requirements, prioritization, design discussions, and estimates
  • Conduct root cause analysis, reproduce defects, and guide fixes and enhancements
  • Review code and designs with customer and offshore team; participate in group design reviews
  • Provide technical support and education to team members; build knowledge repositories
  • Manage change control, deployment tasks, and infrastructure-related activities with client/server teams
  • Ensure timely, high-quality COBOL solutions aligned with company standards
  • Promote knowledge sharing and cross-functional collaboration across the project
  • Take ownership of the technical landscape and lifecycle processes for the application
Key requirements
  • 10 years of experience in COBOL programming and VAXVMS development
  • Strong COBOL programming skills and extensive VAXVMS experience
  • Familiarity with VAX COBOL compiler and utilities; VAXVMS file systems and database management
  • Experience with ICMS tool and with RDB Relational Database
  • Troubleshooting COBOL applications and VAXVMS systems; provide end-user technical support
  • Develop, maintain and enhance COBOL programs on VAXVMS; write, test and debug code
  • Document code according to company standards; proficient with VAXVMS tools
  • Experience in Agile development methodologies (preferred)
  • Experience with knowledge acquisition, design, estimation, and customer-facing collaboration
  • Ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams and communicate with stakeholders
  • collaboration
  • leadership
  • strong communication
  • VAXVMS operating system
  • VAX COBOL compiler and utilities
  • COBOL programming

Reference: WJ-747_30162541

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