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Mainframe Developer

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Contract Corp To Corp

12 Months

No Travel Required

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Remote

$50 - $65/hr

RIIASH LLC

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mainframe
cobol

Summary

Mainframe Developer

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Mainframe Developer to design, develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise-grade applications running on IBM mainframe environments. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, and VSAM, along with solid knowledge of batch processing, online transaction processing, production support, and software development lifecycle practices.

The candidate will work closely with business analysts, application architects, QA teams, and other developers to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-performing mainframe solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Develop, enhance, test, debug, and maintain applications using COBOL.
Develop and maintain JCL for batch processing, job scheduling, and production workflows.
Design and develop applications using DB2 databases, including SQL queries, stored procedures, and performance optimization.
Develop and support CICS online transaction processing applications.
Work with VSAM files, including KSDS, ESDS, and RRDS datasets.
Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into detailed technical solutions.
Perform application design, coding, unit testing, integration testing, and defect resolution.
Analyze existing legacy applications and recommend enhancements or modernization opportunities.
Troubleshoot application, batch, database, and production issues.
Perform root-cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions.
Monitor and support batch jobs and resolve job failures, abends, and data issues.
Develop efficient and reusable COBOL programs and supporting utilities.
Optimize DB2 queries and application processing for performance and scalability.
Participate in code reviews and ensure compliance with development standards.
Prepare technical specifications, application documentation, and support documentation.
Coordinate with QA teams for test planning, test execution, and defect resolution.
Support application deployments and production releases.
Participate in on-call or after-hours production support when required.
Work with cross-functional teams during application upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
Follow SDLC, change-management, source-control, and quality-assurance processes.
Identify opportunities to improve application reliability, performance, maintainability, and automation.

Required Technical Skills

COBOL – Strong hands-on development experience.
JCL – Job creation, execution, troubleshooting, and batch processing.
DB2 – SQL development, database design concepts, queries, and performance tuning.
CICS – Online transaction processing and CICS application development/support.
VSAM – File creation, processing, and troubleshooting.
Strong understanding of mainframe batch and online processing.
Experience with production support and application troubleshooting.
Knowledge of SDLC and software development methodologies.
Experience with mainframe debugging and performance analysis.

Education & Experience

Bachelor''''s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
10+ years of experience in mainframe application development, with strong hands-on experience in COBOL, JCL, DB2, and CICS.
Experience working on large-scale enterprise applications.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and troubleshooting skills.

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: 91165633
Position Id: 9057625
Posted 6 hours ago

Company Info

About RIIASH LLC

RIIASH is a boutique recruiting firm helping clients find the right talent in Software, Legal technology and other fields. Our company was founded because of a deep passion for building, fostering, and nurturing relationships. In connecting talented, skilled professionals with companies looking to grow their teams.

Our approach is highly consultative, and we spend time with our clients in understanding what their requirements are – understanding in detail what their current needs are skill wise, what their project needs are, what their expected goals are from this role / person, team culture, overall company culture. We believe that the more we ask, the more we know about helping our clients find the right talent; ongoing commitment and communication fosters great results. Our partners and our clients are the most essential to our business – client and partner relationships and engagement are crucial to long term success, and we are committed to providing them with our services in a collaborative collected manner to set them and RIIASH for success.

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