Senior Mainframe Engineer

Senior Mainframe Engineer

Job Description

• Experienced Senior Mainframe Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in designing, developing, and supporting complex, large-scale enterprise mainframe applications in high-volume production environments.
• Accountable for the technical execution of assigned mainframe applications, including system design, batch and online architecture, prototype development, coding, and performance optimization.
• Collaborates closely with business users, customers, internal stakeholders, and technical product managers to enhance platform stability, scalability, and operational capabilities.
• Leads and enforces mainframe engineering best practices across teams, including code reviews, JCL standards, version control, CI/CD implementation, release management, and production support processes.
• Enables teams to implement automated and scalable deployment solutions across development, QA, UAT, and production mainframe environments.
• Applies deep industry and domain expertise to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex system issues while providing strategic technical recommendations.
• Partners with leadership teams to design and implement resilient, secure, and high-performing mainframe solutions that improve software maturity and operational excellence.
• Guides the technical direction of the team and contributes to modernization initiatives and long-term platform roadmap planning.
• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement through mentoring junior engineers, providing actionable feedback, and leveraging operational metrics for performance optimization.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of proven experience in Mainframe technologies including COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS, MQ Series, and z/OS environments.
• Strong experience in batch processing, online transaction systems, production support, debugging, and performance tuning using tools such as Abend-AID, File-AID, IBM Debug Tool, Tivoli, Splunk, Dynatrace, and Kibana.
• Hands-on experience with RESTful API integration, Kafka/event-driven systems, ITIL processes, scheduling tools like Control-M, and exposure to cloud and mainframe modernization concepts is an added advantage.