Mainframe & TAX Specialist (Market Search)

Role Name: MF & TAX Specialist (Market Search)
Location: Minneapolis, MN

Position:  4 days a week on site

Job Description:    
"Seeking an experienced Mainframe Developer to lead the design, development, support, and enhancement of tax and regulatory reporting applications on IBM Mainframe platforms. The role involves collaborating with tax, finance, and business stakeholders, ensuring regulatory compliance, providing technical leadership, and mentoring development teams while driving application stability and performance.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

Lead development, maintenance, and support of tax reporting applications.
Collaborate with business, tax, and compliance teams to define requirements and solutions.
Design, review, test, and deploy mainframe-based reporting solutions.
Ensure application performance, stability, and regulatory compliance.
Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
Mentor developers and support project planning and estimation.

 

Required Skills:

 

8+ years of IBM Mainframe development experience.
Strong expertise in COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS.
Experience with Zeke, File Manager, Abend-Aid, SPUFI, SORT, ICETOOL.
Knowledge of SFTP processes, report generation, batch processing, and job scheduling.
Strong SQL, debugging, performance tuning, and Azure DevOps/source control experience.
Familiarity with AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot.

 

Preferred Domain Experience

 

Tax and Regulatory Reporting - Must Have
Financial Reporting
Banking and Financial Services

 

Leadership Skills

 

Technical leadership and team mentoring
Stakeholder management
Project planning and estimation
Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills"