Senior Mainframe Developer - JCL/COBOL

Job Role : Mainframe Senior Developer WFH and WFO Job Description : Responsibilities : - Analyzing user requirements, envisioning system features and functionality. - Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable mainframe codes by setting expectations and features priorities. - Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and recommend system solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development - Contributing to team meetings, troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms - Understand Architecture Requirements and ensure effective Design, Development, Validation and Support activities - Perform research, analysis, design, planning, coding, and testing - Investigate and resolve routine or common incidents and issues - Plan and execute automation/streamlining activities to reduce manual efforts/cost - Participates in project calls with stakeholders representing our applications and asses the impacts and action items for our applications - Participate in the support, coordination, and execution of scheduled maintenance activities including validation during upgrades, DR tests, etc. - Be available for project and maintenance activities outside normal working hours, if needed - Proficient in multiple programming languages with depth of knowledge within specific tech stacks (application languages, algorithms, database normalization, data structures, common tools, etc.,) - Comfort in modern computing techniques inclusive of TDD, CI/CD, Human-Centered design, code management including reuse, secure computing - Strong bias towards automating any process that repeats - Takes pride in end-to-end digital product ownership from coding to production deployments and support - Demonstrates mindset of continuous refactoring for codebase - Key contributor during incident responses and root cause management - Strong business acumen to ensure effective iteration materializes in achieving intended outcomes - General understanding of how digital product is delivering value towards applicable business area and only writing software that contributes to that value - Ability to write technical stories, size appropriately and influence the prioritization in partnership with Digital Product Manager - Ability to recognized and pivot when sizing assumptions are not validated in development in partnership with Digital Product Manager - Demonstrates strong empathy towards Human-Centered design thinking Technical and Professional Requirements : Primary skills Required: Mainframes, COBOL, PL/1, CICS, JCL, DB2Tools: IBM Rational tools (IDz, RDz, RBD, RTC) Additional Responsibilities : - In-depth knowledge of design issues and best practices - Solid understanding of object-oriented programming - Familiar with various design, architectural patterns and software development process. - Experience with both external and embedded databases - Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes - Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests - Good verbal and written communication skills - Ability to communicate with remote teams in effective manner - High flexibility to travel (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: in, IN

Posted Date: 11/22/2024