Job#: 3033909 Job Description: Mainframe Engineer project
Location: REMOTE
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Mainframe Software Engineer to help design, enhance, and modernize mission-critical tax processing systems. You will collaborate with architecture, product, and business partners to build reliable and scalable solutions. You will develop a deep understanding of the mainframe ecosystem, including core applications, data flows, and end-to-end processing, while focusing on engineering excellence and hands-on delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in architecture design initiatives that shape mainframe and hybrid-platform solutions.
- Implement and contribute to application and system-level architectures for high-performance, resilient mainframe environments.
- Ensure production readiness, quality assurance, performance, and compliance with enterprise standards.
- Author and maintain documentation including architecture diagrams, integration specifications, and runbooks.
- Identify engineering risks and contribute to mitigation strategies to ensure system resilience.
- Collaborate across teams to align on schedules and manage cross-functional dependencies.
- Champion production stability by proactively monitoring, diagnosing, and resolving system issues and driving root-cause analysis.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 6+ years of experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years of experience.
Experience: Proven experience designing, engineering, and optimizing mission-critical mainframe applications. A background in modernizing legacy mainframe systems and integrating with distributed or cloud architectures is required.
Technical Skills: Deep expertise with COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, batch/online processing, IOM, and enterprise batch scheduling tools. Advanced SQL proficiency across DB2, Oracle, and/or Postgres with strong data analysis and performance debugging skills.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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