COBOL Developer with French

About the Position

We are seeking a skilled COBOL Developer with French language proficiency to join our team in Timisoara, Romania. This role focuses on maintaining and evolving COBOL and Java applications within a complex information system.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Act as the technical reference across the RFOS application landscape (batch processing, services, UIs, sub-programs).
• Ensure consistency of the hybrid COBOL/Java architecture.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to developers (best practices, code reviews, complex components).
• Serve as a key technical escalation point for maintenance and regulatory evolution topics.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives (performance, quality, maintainability).

Development & Maintenance

• Lead and contribute to corrective and evolutive maintenance activities.
• Work on business-critical components, including:
  • Daily batch import/export processing
  • Data exposure through Web Services
  • Management and consultation user interfaces
  • Reference data, contracts, and nomenclature modules
• Ensure the robustness and performance of batch processes, which typically handle large volumes of data in scheduled automated runs.
• Contribute to technical debt reduction within a large legacy application landscape.
• Analyze and troubleshoot incidents across production systems.

Quality, Testing & Industrialization

• Define and implement testing strategies (component, integration, and data flow testing).
• Secure batch processing (restart mechanisms, controls, monitoring).
• Improve and maintain industrialization processes (scheduling, shell scripts, Unix tooling).
• Ensure data quality, traceability, and consistency across systems.
• Manage and control sensitive data flows and reconciliation processes.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of Web Services for data exposure.
• Perform technical impact analyses related to regulatory changes.

Collaboration

• Work closely with:
  • Operations teams
  • Testing teams
  • Business stakeholders (MOA)
• Participate actively in incident resolution, including data-related production incidents.
• Ensure alignment across multiple interconnected systems and external data repositories (e.g., healthcare registries or national datasets).

Requirements

Mandatory

• COBOL
• SQL
• Unix / Shell scripting
• Spring Batch
• Experience with UIs and service-oriented architectures
• Fluent French

Nice to Have

• Java
• ClearQuest or equivalent tools

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Professional development opportunities
• Diverse and inclusive workplace

About the Company

Atos is the Atos Group brand dedicated to AI-powered, secure, end-to-end digital services. Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience, and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements.

With more than 52,000 employees serving over 4,500 clients across 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT systems, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure digital workplace environments to support its clients, its employees, and society.

Choose your future. Choose Atos.

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