Cognizant is seeking a highly skilled AS400 Technical Lead Developer with strong expertise in RPG, CL400, Cobol400, and SQL. The ideal candidate will take accountability and ownership for assigned tasks, liaise with key stakeholders, and work on development projects, particularly within the insurance domain. This role requires excellent communication skills, flexibility, and a proactive attitude to drive successful project outcomes.

Job Title: AS400 Technical Lead Developer

Location: Auckland NZ

Duration : Full Time

Responsibilities:

In this high-impact role, the AS400 Developer will be responsible for:

• Development Projects: Take accountability and ownership for assigned tasks, liaise with key stakeholders to understand requirements, and work on development projects.
• Technical Expertise: Demonstrate strong knowledge in AS400 technology, specifically RPG, CL400, and Cobol400. Additional knowledge in SQL is preferable.
• Onsite Offshore Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with onsite and offshore teams.
• Support and Guidance: Support managers and peers to ensure company and individual goals are successfully achieved. Guide junior team members technically and take up review works.
• Business Understanding: Understand the business and help customers by proposing value adds that bring added value to both Cognizant and the customer.
• Best Practices: Actively share best practices and learnings with peers to contribute to project growth.
• Production Support: Provide technical support for all iSeries servers, manage and troubleshoot the AS400 system, including CPU utilization, media management, and handling host servers.
• Incident Management: Judge task priorities and handle L2 and L3 incidents and service requests.
• Felixbile Working Hours: Be flexible to work on a shift basis to support customer business hours, with shift timings from 6 AM to 3 PM IST.
• Queue Management: Manage all customer requests through effective queue management.

To apply for this role, your soft skills, expertise and experience should include:

Key Skills:

• Proven experience in development projects.
• Strong communication skills.
• Technical expertise in AS400, RPG, CL400, Cobol400, and SQL.
• Prior experience in development with insurance domain knowledge.
• Hands-on admin experience in AS400 (iSeries) including RPG, CLLE, RPGLE programming knowledge.
• Ability to manage and troubleshoot the AS400 system.
• Flexibility and a proactive attitude to take ownership of tasks.
• Ability to support and guide junior team members.
• Strong understanding of business needs and ability to propose value adds.
• Experience in production support with insurance domain knowledge.

Qualifications:

• Experience in handling technical support for all iSeries servers.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and independently.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.