Cobol Developer - Japanese Bilingual

IBM β€’ Multiple Cities

Company

IBM

Location

Multiple Cities

Type

Full Time

Job Description

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

In this role you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Software Developer you'll participate in many aspects of the software development lifecycle such as design code implementation testing and support. You will create software that enables your clients' hybrid-cloud and AI journeys.

Your primary responsibilities include:

  • Responsible for designing developing maintaining and optimizing applications running on IBM z/OS systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust and scalable solutions that support critical business operations.
  • Develop test and maintain applications on IBM z/OS using COBOL JCL DB2 and other mainframe technologies.
  • Analyze business requirements and translate them into technical specifications
  • Perform code reviews debugging and performance tuning of z/OS applications
  • Collaborate with system analysts QA testers and operations teams to ensure seamless deployment and support
  • Maintain documentation for programs processes and procedures
  • Participate in incident resolution and root cause analysis for production issues
  • Ensure compliance with security audit and regulatory standards
Required education
Associate's Degree/College Diploma
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field

  • 2+ years of experience in z/OS application development (COBOL JCL DB2 VSAM CICS)

  • Strong understanding of mainframe architecture and batch/online processing

  • Familiarity with version control tools and change management processes

  • Ability to write efficient maintainable and well-documented code

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Excellent communication and teamwork abilities

  • Amenable to work on a client dictated shift (day mid night).

  • Open to work on any of IBM locations (Quezon City or Cebu).

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience with REXX IMS or Assembler is a plus

  • Exposure to Agile methodologies and DevOps practices

  • Knowledge of performance monitoring tools and techniques

  • Familiarity with integration between mainframe and distributed systems

  • JLPT N1-N3 Certification

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Date Posted

12/04/2025

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