COBOL Developer with French

Atos is the Atos Group brand dedicated to AI-powered, secure, end-to-end digital services. Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements.

With more than 52,000 employees serving over 4,500 clients across 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT systems, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure digital workplace environments to support its clients, its employees and society. Atos also provides consulting and advisory services through its Atos Amplify brand. A trusted partner in operating complex and mission-critical environments, Atos supports organizations across highly regulated and sovereign contexts.

About Atos Group

Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with approximately 54,000 employees and annual revenue of around €7.2 billion, operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris.

We are looking for a Cobol Developer to support the maintenance and evolution of a portfolio of COBOL and Java applications within a complex information system. The role is part of a Third-Party Application Maintenance (TMA) environment, focused on data quality and consistency, regulatory compliance, reliability of critical data flows, and service continuity for business-critical systems. TMA activities typically include corrective, evolutive, and preventive maintenance of applications while ensuring performance and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Act as the technical reference across the RFOS application landscape (batch processing, services, UIs, sub-programs). Ensure consistency of the hybrid COBOL/Java architecture. Provide technical guidance and mentoring to developers (best practices, code reviews, complex components). Serve as a key technical escalation point for maintenance and regulatory evolution topics. Lead continuous improvement initiatives (performance, quality, maintainability).

• Development and Maintenance: Lead and contribute to corrective and evolutive maintenance activities. Work on business-critical components, including daily batch import/export processing, data exposure through Web Services, management and consultation user interfaces, reference data, contracts, and nomenclature modules. Ensure the robustness and performance of batch processes, which typically handle large volumes of data in scheduled automated runs. Contribute to technical debt reduction within a large legacy application landscape. Analyze and troubleshoot incidents across production systems.

• Quality, Testing and Industrialization: Define and implement testing strategies (component, integration, and data flow testing). Secure batch processing (restart mechanisms, controls, monitoring). Improve and maintain industrialization processes (scheduling, shell scripts, Unix tooling). Ensure data quality, traceability, and consistency across systems. Manage and control sensitive data flows and reconciliation processes. Contribute to the design and evolution of Web Services for data exposure. Perform technical impact analyses related to regulatory changes.

• Collaboration: Work closely with Operations teams, Testing teams, and Business stakeholders. Participate actively in incident resolution, including data-related production incidents. Ensure alignment across multiple interconnected systems and external data repositories.

• Accountability: Ensure the technical and functional quality of RFOS applications. Secure critical data flows and reference data systems. Proactively contribute to technical and organizational improvements. Maintain high-quality documentation (technical, functional, operational).

• Required Technical Skills

• Mandatory: COBOL, SQL, Unix / Shell scripting, Spring Batch, Experience with UIs and service-oriented architectures, Fluent French.

• Nice to have: Java, ClearQuest or equivalent tools.

• Other Technical Expertise: Web Services design and data exposure, Middleware: WebLogic, Environments: Unix / AIX, Scheduling: a universal orchestrator, Version control and testing tools (batch and data flow validation), Data reconciliation and control tools.

• Strong understanding of: Data quality, consistency and reference systems, complex inter-application data flows, and critical and high-impact regulatory systems.

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