COBOL Performance Analyst

CTG is seeking to fill a COBOL Performance Analyst position for our client.

Location: Primarily remote, with occasional in-person customer meetings as needed based on project requirements
Duration: 12 months

Duties:

• Analyze and optimize COBOL application code, SQL queries, and batch processing within a Micro Focus distributed runtime environment to improve performance and reduce resource utilization.

• Identify performance bottlenecks, memory issues, high-resource transactions, and inefficient batch workloads through 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; conduct 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 performing analysis or recommending application changes.

• Provide expert COBOL performance analysis and optimization in a Micro Focus distributed environment. z/OS systems programming is outside the scope of this role.

Skills:

• 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.

Experience:

• 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.

• Experience with IBM mainframe technologies such as z/OS, COBOL, Db2, CICS, JCL, and VSAM, as applicable to the application environment.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group are required.

CTG does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee based recruitment services for this role.

To Apply:

To be considered, please apply directly to this requisition using the link provided. Kindly forward this to any other interested parties. Thank you!

The expected base salary for this position ranges from $55.00 to $59.00/hour. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, market factors, and where applicable, licensure or certifications obtained. In addition to salary, a competitive benefit package is also offered.