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Mainframe Developer

Charlotte, NC, US • Posted 3 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago

Full Time

No Travel Required

On-site

Depends on Experience

Stanley David and Associates

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Skills

Mainframe
COBOL
CICS
JCL
IBM DB2
IBM WebSphere MQ

Summary

Job Title: Mainframe Developer

Location: Charlotte, NC

Job Type: Fulltime

Job Description:

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

· 8+ years of experience in Mainframe based development and integration

· Strong hands-on with COBOL for core banking systems (deposits, loans, GL, payments), including file/DB processing, copybooks, and error handling.

· Expert in crafting/optimizing JCL, cataloged procedures, restart/recovery, conditional steps, and data manipulation with SORT utilities.

· Designing and troubleshooting high-throughput CICS applications (comm areas, TSQs/TDQs, pseudo-conversational design, MAPs/BMS, threadsafe considerations).

· Data modeling, SQL tuning (EXPLAIN, indexing strategies), concurrency control, packages/binds, stored procedures, and plans for EOD/EOM heavy workloads.

· Access models, dataset/database protection, least-privilege, MFA integration, and audit readiness for regulators.

· Batch Scheduling (Control‑M/CA‑7) – Building complex job streams, calendars, dependencies, SLAs, reruns/restarts, critical path monitoring for narrow batch windows.

· MQ design (queues, channels), message persistence, dead-letter handling; understanding ISO 8583 (cards) and ISO 20022 (payments).

· Secure coding, logging/audit trails, PII handling, encryption/tokenization, retention rules, and evidencing controls.

· Reading SMF/RMF, CICS/DB2 performance dashboards, detecting contention, tuning CPU/IO, and capacity planning.

· File Transfer & Data Exchange – Connect:Direct (NDM), SFTP/FTPS, encryption (PGP), large file handling, file integrity checks, and partner data onboarding.

· Exposing mainframe assets through z/OS Connect EE (REST/JSON), service wrappers, contract-first design, and hybrid integration patterns.

· Impact analysis, segregation of duties, change advisory records, incident/problem management, and clean cutover/backout practices.

· Good experience with ETL processing · Candidate should have good analytical & problem solving skills.

· Candidate should be able to fully debug their own code as well as others, troubleshoot defects and have a human centric approach to the user experience.

· Experience working in Agile teams

· Demonstrates best in class design and solution patterns

· Experience with Horizon CI/CD platforms (Jira, bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, etc.,)

Roles & Responsibilities

· Building the solution right

· Design develops and is accountable for mainframe based story delivery within each sprint

· Applies enterprise standards and design patterns for solution design , coding and quality

· Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt

· Participates with team members to drive best practices (peer reviews and other engineering practices)

· Attends team ceremonies and contributes to planning, estimation and design sessions

· Vocalizes risks in timely manner and escalates appropriately

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: 91097129
Position Id: 8955113
Posted 3 hours ago

Company Info

About Stanley David and Associates

We strive to add value and work as true partner with our clients

Stanley David And Associates is a recruitment specialist in the area of IT and Engineering and we stay firmly in our area of expertise, doing what we love.

We know the players and the companies and invest a lot of time getting to know candidates and clients in equal measure. This ensures a swift, cost effective and perfect placement whether it s permanent or interim.

In addition we have a reputation for having the best understanding of the market landscape, for sourcing great candidates

-We have a Global Footprint with offices in 3 countries USA, UK and India.

-SDNA Global have built up an incredible reputation within the IT strategic hiring.

-We work with Tier1 and Tier 2 IT Outsourcing companies for Leadership hiring needs in UK, Europe, USA and Indian geos.

-Each SDNA member has over 5 years of experience in Talent Acquisition

-We have successfully closed roles in countries UK, USA, Germany, Sweden, Dubai, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Hungry, Spain, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Nigeria and South Africa

-Telecom, Media and Hi-tech

-Health care and Life Sciences

-Energy and Utilities

-CPG, Retail and Transport

-Banking and Financial Services

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