Teamlead software Cobol (Freelance possible)

Description

You will provide leadership and coordination for a technical delivery team working on mainframe COBOL applications and migration support, ensuring high-quality execution, proper reporting, and smooth alignment with program governance and objectives.

Expected deliverables:

• Effective leadership and coordination of the life cycle of development starting from business requirements, functional & technical analysis, build & unit testing until System integration testing
• Prioritization of backlog items and tasks within the team.
• Regular status, progress, and risk reporting to project and program leadership.
• Close follow-up of the testing activities and driving the validation process for the functional & technical analysis through team guidance and issue resolution.
• Ensuring documentation and knowledge transfer from the team to internal IT stakeholders.

Roles & responsibilities:

• Supervise and coordinate the development team.
• Monitor progress, manage risks, and escalate through governance when needed.
• Ensure alignment of deliverables with quality standards and project milestones.
• Facilitate collaboration between the team, internal IT, business stakeholders, and partners.
• Report regularly on team status, issues, and mitigations.

Your profile

• Solid background in the life cycle of a development process in a onshore & offshore context
• Experience with system integration and data migration projects.
• Awareness of financial and regulatory contexts (insurance knowledge is an important plus).
• Familiarity with structured project governance and backlog management.

• Strong team leadership and people management skills.
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and coordinate multiple activities.
• Skilled in problem-solving in a structured and pragmatic way.
• Effective stakeholder communication and reporting.
• Experience managing vendors or external contributors is an asset.

Your competences:

• Ownership-oriented: accountable for the teams delivery and performance.
• Collaborative: bridges team members, business stakeholders, and IT.
• Structured & disciplined: ensures governance, quality, and reporting standards are followed.
• Proactive & solution-driven: anticipates risks and addresses blockers early.
• Knowledge-builder: promotes documentation and knowledge transfer for sustainability.