Mid-Level COBOL Developer

Mid-Level COBOL Developer

📍 Work Model: Hybrid, 3 days on-site

📍 Location: São Paulo/SP — Santo Amaro or Interlagos

📍 Employment Type: CLT (Full-time)

About Nava:

We operate at the core of industry-leading companies, where technology, strategy, and operations converge. We design architectures, establish governance, and transform complexity into clarity, creating solutions that continuously drive growth, efficiency, and competitiveness.

With around 2,000 specialists, Nava connects creative thinking, advanced engineering, and GenAI-driven technology to accelerate business results. We operate in Data, Cybersecurity, Cloud, Observability, Infrastructure, Application Modernization, and Creative Innovation, serving as the link that aligns technology and business toward the same goals.

Our ecosystem expands this capability through GH Brandtech, which unites brand strategy, experience, design, and digital products; Ventura, a reference in cybersecurity, incident response, and crisis management; and ®CS Global IT, specialized in Cloud, Multicloud, and Data Centers. Together, they strengthen our ability to deliver scalable solutions that fuel innovation, sustainable growth, and competitive advantage.

Your Challenges:

We are looking for a Senior COBOL Developer to work in a Mainframe environment, contributing to the support and evolution of critical systems.

You will be part of a high-criticality environment, working on the operation and maintenance of batch processes, failure analysis, technical adjustments, and ensuring routine stability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operate and monitor batch jobs in Control-M Mainframe, ensuring SLA compliance.
• Analyze and resolve failures (abends), performing releases, reprocessing, and job restarts.
• Conduct technical investigations on programs to identify causes and execution parameters.
• Execute changes in JCLs, COBOL programs, and DB2, including steps, DDs, parameters, datasets, conditionals, and RCs.
• Adjust and validate SYSINs and execution parameters.
• Perform analyses and maintenance on COBOL/JCL, following change management processes.
• Support the maintenance and evolution of applications in critical Mainframe environments.

Required Qualifications:

• Solid experience with Control-M Mainframe, including dependencies, rerun/restart, and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in JCL and SYSIN.
• Experience in failure analysis within TSO/ISPF environments.
• Knowledge of batch processing, including RC, steps, and datasets (GDG/VSAM).
• Experience in development and maintenance using COBOL/DB2.
• Knowledge of Mainframe environments and critical routines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Oracle databases.
• Experience with Mainframe utilities such as SORT and IDCAMS.
• Experience with support tools and change management tools like Changeman.
• Availability to work in shifts, including afternoon/overnight shifts.
• Availability to work on weekends.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Sense of urgency and focus on incident resolution.
• Analytical reasoning for rapid problem diagnosis.
• Organization and discipline in documenting actions and evidence.
• Clear communication with technical, business, and operations teams.
• Ability to work in a team and collaborate on problem-solving.
• Responsibility and commitment to the stability of critical environments.

Nava Benefits:

At Nava, we offer a benefits package designed to support different stages of life and professional journeys:

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Meal and/or Food Allowance
• Transportation Allowance or Mobility Aid
• Life Insurance
• Wellhub
• Employee Referral Program
• Training and Development Platform
• Childcare Assistance, according to current policy
• Personal Assistance
• Pharmacy Card
• Partnerships with discounts on education, services, culture, and leisure

Want to join us?

Submit your resume via email to [email protected] and join the Nava team!

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💙 All our opportunities are also open to professionals with disabilities (PwD). We value diversity and inclusion, and we believe diverse teams drive innovation and transformation.

Data Privacy:

By applying for this position, you acknowledge that your personal data will be processed by Nava exclusively for recruitment and selection purposes, assessment of profile fit, communication regarding the selection process, and potential consideration for future opportunities, in accordance with the General Data Protection Law (LGPD).

Nava adopts security measures to protect your information and guarantees the candidate the exercise of rights provided under applicable legislation.

For more information or requests related to your personal data, please contact the Data Protection Officer via email: [email protected].

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