Mainframe Data Architect (COBOL/DB2/CICS)

Immediate need for a talented Mainframe Data Architect (COBOL/DB2/CICS). This is a 05+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Chicago, IL (Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 26-20515

Pay Range: $65 - $70/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with business stakeholders, Product Owners, SMEs, analysts, and development teams to understand business processes, data requirements, source systems, data mappings, and data consumption needs.
• Translate business requirements, processes, and rules into logical and physical data models, source-to-target mappings, and data integration specifications.
• Define and implement test data strategies that support functional, regression, integration, performance, automation, and modernization testing needs.
• Design and govern reusable test data patterns, test data provisioning approaches, masking strategies, synthetic data solutions, and environment refresh processes.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of data modeling principles, including entities, attributes, relationships, schemas, primary and foreign keys, indexes, constraints, and overall database design.
• Read, interpret, and analyze Entity Relationship Diagrams, database schemas, data dictionaries, and end-to-end data flow diagrams to identify data dependencies and business impact.
• Perform data discovery, analysis, and data mining across multiple databases, tables, files, and source systems using SQL, Easytrieve, and other data query and extraction tools.
• Validate data quality, integrity, consistency, and accuracy by analyzing data relationships, transformation logic, reconciliation results, and business rules across systems.
• Develop an understanding of data movement and integration patterns, including real-time and batch processing, event-driven architectures, APIs, messaging queues, data pipelines, and file-based interfaces.
• Collaborate with architecture, development, testing, and operational teams to support data analysis, problem resolution, impact assessments, test automation enablement, and system modernization initiatives.
• Ensure test data solutions comply with data privacy, data protection, retention, classification, and regulatory requirements for sensitive customer and financial data.
• Document data models, test data design patterns, source-to-target mappings, provisioning processes, standards, and best practices for repeatable enterprise use.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Must have skills:
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Management, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong experience in data analysis, data architecture, database design, test data management, quality engineering, or software delivery.
• Proficiency writing and optimizing SQL queries for data discovery, validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience analyzing relational databases, mainframe data structures, files, batch jobs, APIs, and downstream data consumers.
• Ability to translate business rules and system behavior into clear data requirements, mappings, and test data needs.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex data concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and collaborating across product, engineering, quality, architecture, and operations teams.
• COBOL, CICS, DB2, DB2 utilities, SQL JCL, MVS Utilities, Experience doing Production Support Use of CA7 Scheduling tool. Need to be able to do analysis on the as-is and come up with design of the to be, Use of Jira
• Databases
• DB2
• SQL Server
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Data Analysis & Query Tools
• SQL
• Easytrieve
• SPUFI
• Basic understanding of COBOL, JCL, and VSAM datasets
• Banking Domain Knowledge (Preferred)
• Experience working within banking, payments, credit card, deposits, lending, or customer/account data domains.
• Understanding of core banking platforms, transaction processing flows, customer and account hierarchies, and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Ability to trace, analyze, and map data across upstream and downstream applications, databases, files, APIs, and enterprise data platforms.
• Familiarity with batch and real-time processing architectures and the movement of data across interconnected banking systems.
• Experience with enterprise test data management platforms, data masking, synthetic data generation, data subsetting, and automated data provisioning is preferred.
• Understanding of data governance, data classification, retention requirements, and regulations governing the storage, transmission, and protection of sensitive customer and financial data.

Our client is a leading Healthcare Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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