Mainframe Developer

Experience: 10+ Years

Interview: Face-to-Face (F2F)

Work Location: Local candidates preferred / Onsite

Employment: W2 / Contract

Must Have Skills

• 10+ years of hands-on Mainframe development experience
• Strong COBOL development experience
• Strong REXX scripting/development experience
• Strong JCL
• Strong DB2 / SQL
• Hands-on CICS
• Good knowledge of VSAM
• Experience with both Batch and Online applications
• Production support, debugging and abend handling
• Impact analysis, coding, unit testing and defect resolution
• Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile methodology

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance and maintain Mainframe applications using COBOL.
• Develop and maintain REXX scripts for automation and Mainframe utilities.
• Analyze requirements and perform impact analysis across COBOL programs, JCL, DB2 and CICS components.
• Develop and modify batch and online applications.
• Troubleshoot production issues, abends and data-related problems.
• Perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent fixes.
• Write and optimize DB2 SQL queries.
• Work with VSAM files and Mainframe datasets.
• Prepare and execute unit/SIT testing.
• Support UAT and production deployments.
• Coordinate with business analysts, QA and offshore/onshore teams.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.
• Prepare technical documentation and support release activities.

Good to Have

• IMS DB/DC
• MQ
• CA7 / Control-M
• Easytrieve
• CLIST
• Mainframe utilities such as SORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER
• Mainframe-to-distributed integrations
• Banking / Financial Services domain experience
• Performance tuning / Mainframe optimization