Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting embraces long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including IBM Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
In this role, you’ll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. These centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Within the service centre, the COBOL and MAINFRAME teams are made up of around a hundred people organised into human-sized teams. This organisation allows for multiple career development within projects (technical, functional and managerial).
In the medium term, our training schemes allow for developments towards other technologies. Our services are carried out on the Lille site, offering opportunities to work in direct contact with our clients throughout France.

As a Cobol Developer, you will participate in all stages of the project:

• Application development (RDZ environment under Eclipse),
• Design and implementation of unit tests,
• Participation in integration tests and recipes for developed applications.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Undergoing training in computer science
• Good interpersonal skills: important quality in a team
• Good writing skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Fluency in spoken & written English to communicate with other IBM service centres in Europe
• Spirit of synthesis and logic
• Comfortable with complex algorithmic subjects