Simon & Schuster · UP, India
Skills: C#/.NET, SQL
Simon & Schuster is a global leader in general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital, and audio formats. Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards. It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Pocket Books, Adams Media, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio and international companies in Australia, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, and proudly brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories. For more information visit our website at www.simonandschuster.com.
The Senior COBOL Developer is the team's legacy-code authority. This is a discovery-first role: you will spend much of your time reading COBOL programs, JCL, copybooks, and job definitions to establish what the system actually does today, which of it still matters, and what must be preserved when it is replaced. You will do that work with AI tooling (GitHub Copilot agents purpose-built for COBOL program analysis, job-flow mapping, and dependency tracing), using it to move fast and using your own expertise to verify what it produces.
Discovery is only half of the job. You will also be actively retiring technical debt: identifying programs, jobs, reports, and interfaces that are no longer needed, building the evidence to prove it, and safely removing them from production. And as legacy processes are replaced by their modernized equivalents, you will document what they did, confirm nothing still depends on them, and retire them.
Alongside the modernization work, you will carry a share of production maintenance and support for the existing system: incident diagnosis, bug fixes, small enhancements, and periodic on-call coverage. This keeps the modernizatio…
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