Website:
nextamp.com
Job details:
Job Title: Cobol Specialist - AI Opportunity
Company Overview: NextAmp is a digital modernization services company focused on transforming the insurance industry. We help insurance organizations redesign workflows and build AI-powered, automated systems that improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Our solutions streamline core operational areas including claims processing, underwriting, billing, and back-office operations.
Job Type: Contract (3 Months)
Work Schedule: 20 Hours per Week
Location: Remote
Job Overview: We are looking for an COBOL Specialist (Architect or Lead Engineer) to assist in building a mainframe AI accelerator. The scope involves identifying use cases where AI (Claude, CoPilot) can help accelerate mainframe migration project. It may involve developing scripts/utilities to extract structured metadata from COBOL programs and related artifacts on a mainframe system. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, deep experience with COBOL and mainframe environments, and the ability to design tooling that parses and exports program information for downstream automation and analysis using Copilot and Claude.
Key Responsibilities
- Design an extensible extraction framework for accelerating mainframe migration project
- Design and develop scripts/tools to extract and export metadata from COBOL programs.
- Analyze COBOL source code to capture structured information including:
- Data Division definitions
- Procedure Division logic
- Program call relationships (Call Analysis)
- Embedded SQL statements
- Program metadata and dependencies
- Build utilities to export extracted data into structured formats (e.g., JSON, CSV, XML, or database tables).
- Document extraction logic and data structures for future phases of the project.
Mandatory Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in managing migration of application from mainframe to digital (.Net/Java)
- Strong experience with IBM Mainframe environments (z/OS) and Colobol
- Deep understanding of:
- COBOL program structure
- Data Division and Procedure Division
- JCL
- Copybooks
- Program call structures
- Experience with Embedded SQL (DB2 preferred)
- Strong analytical and code parsing skills
- Experience building code analysis or metadata extraction tools
- Ability to work independently in a freelance/consulting capacity
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in leveraging CoPilot, Claude to accelerate the Mainframe migration project
- Experience with mainframe modernization or code analysis tools.
- Knowledge of static code analysis techniques.
- Experience exporting metadata into structured formats for downstream automation or AI tools.
- Familiarity with REXX, Python, or other scripting languages used with mainframes.
Contract Details
- Contract/full time/Freelance
- Remote Engagement.
- Compensation: Competitive hourly rate (to be discussed).
- Possible extension based on performance and business needs.
Company Website: https://www.nextamp.com/
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