Mainframe Developer

Role         ::               Mainframe Developer
Location ::                Jersey City, NJ/Jacksonville FL

Type        ::                 Fulltime

Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

· Strong hands-on experience with COBOL, JCL, and VSAM for batch application development and maintenance.
· Extensive experience with CICS (online transaction processing), including program design and support.
· Very good working knowledge of DB2 and SQL, including usage of stored procedures.
· Proficient in mainframe file utilities such as IDCAMS, SORT, and IEBGENER.
· Experience using debugging and diagnostic tools such as Fault Analyzer for issue resolution.
· Hands-on experience with job schedulers (CA-11) and batch job monitoring.
· Working knowledge of version control and configuration management tools such as Endevor and ISPW.
· Experience with integration technologies including MQ, Web Services, and z/OS Connect.
· Strong understanding of end-to-end mainframe application architecture, including batch, online, and integration components.
· Ability to work in a multi-technology environment and willingness to understand upstream and downstream systems.
· Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with multiple teams across business and technology.

Roles & Responsibilities

· Gather status updates on assigned deliverables and report progress, risks, and issues to the management team.
· Promptly identify and escalate risks or issues and proactively drive them to resolution.
· Coordinate and facilitate delivery routines such as kick-off meetings, status reviews, and stakeholder discussions.
· Participate in coordination discussions to establish priorities and timelines for deliverables.
· Design, develop, enhance, and support mainframe applications using COBOL, CICS, DB2, and JCL.
· Perform production deployments and provide technical support for applications in production environments.
· Collaborate closely with QA teams, business analysts, project managers, and other technical teams.
· Conduct code reviews, ensure adherence to coding standards, and contribute to application design decisions.
· Support defect resolution, performance tuning, and production issue troubleshooting.
· Work within an Agile delivery model, participating in ceremonies and continuous improvement initiatives.