ESPRIMO Srl, an IT consultancy company operating since 2002 throughout Italy and internationally, in support of companies, is located in the Information Technology sector, with the objective of providing a wide range of products, services and solutions in the most strategic to the enterprise, such as: IT infrastructures, Content Management, ERP, Business Intelligence, CRM, Web Applications,

is looking for:

Cobol programmers to be included in project activities.

The ideal candidate is in possession of the following skills:

In an international team of application engineers and business analysts based in Switzerland and Slovakia you will be involved in all steps of the development of the IT system.

You will liaise closely with the business analysts and other teams within Finance IT.

You will be working in an international staffed team of business analysts and application engineers.

The team is responsible for the development, implementation and operation of an economic valuation system and a Solvency II calculation system.

The functionality of the application will be continuously extended in the next years.

The business functionality is implemented in COBOL using DB2 on z/OS as database.

The code is mostly executed in batch jobs which are controlled by the TWS/UC4 and are running on the mainframe.

Besides that, some front ends are implemented in Java/VBA.

Your job will include:

implementation, testing and documentation and deployment
work on technical concepts and solutions designs in a close cooperation with business analysts
discussions, iterations and agreements of concepts and designs with business analysts
taking an active role in the implementation phase in collaboration with internal and external partners
documentation of the technical solution, the data model and the implementation
contribution to the respective change management process
open and active cooperation with other teams to support production processes (monitoring, issue resolution)
provide stand-by for duties when required SKILLS
very good experience as COBOLprogrammer
very good knowledge in SQL/ DB2 and DB2 profiling tools
experience in performance tuning of DB2 based applications
experience with relational data model and databases
good knowledge about IBM’s mainframe system environment
very good knowledge in TWS
very good knowledge in UC4 is an advantage
experience in object oriented programming is an advantage
experience in visual basic for application is an advantage
insurance and financial accounting knowledge is seen as a plus
independent and responsive in character
ability to structure and drive things
capacity to work under pressure
good command of English, knowledge of German is an advantage
good level of communication, commitment to work in a decentralized team
maximum age 40 years
Operating office: Vimercate(Milan)

It offers an insertion in a stimulating and innovative context, with great prospects for professional growth and remuneration commensurate with experience.

It is required to send Curricula responding to the profile of the open position, will be taken into consideration only those actually in possession of the above requirements.

The research is aimed at both sexes (L.903 / 77). Send detailed curriculum vitae, with the authorization to process personal data according to Law 196/2003.