Mainframe Developer 181068

CTI Consulting • Westlake, TX

23d

About The Position

The Mainframe Developer will develop, maintain, enhance, and support business-critical, enterprise-wide applications in batch and online environments. The role includes analyzing maintenance and enhancement projects, designing and deploying software releases to production, protecting customer information, and resolving high-severity production issues. The developer is expected to be proactive, detail-oriented, and able to identify root causes and implement technical solutions, while performing thorough testing and maintaining excellent documentation.

Requirements

• 7–10 years of software development experience in business-critical, enterprise-wide applications.
• Excellent mainframe development skills in COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, IBM Utilities, FileAID, Endevor, SQL, debuggers, schedulers, and IOMs.
• Ability to perform detailed analysis in batch and online environments.
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting software releases in production environments.
• Data security skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to execute thorough unit, functional, and regression testing.
• Ability to perform hands-on detailed analysis.
• Ability to identify root causes and design and implement technical solutions.
• Experience handling high-severity or critical production issues.
• Excellent documentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• BS/BA or advanced degree, or equivalent experience (preferred).
• Experience writing COBOL/native stored procedures; willingness to learn is acceptable.
• Experience with distributed technologies such as Java and service-based architecture via RESTful APIs; willingness to learn is acceptable.
• Awareness of or exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, particularly in hybrid mainframe–cloud integration scenarios; willingness to learn is acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Perform detailed hands-on analysis for maintenance and enhancement projects in batch and online environments.
• Design, deploy, and support software releases in production environments.
• Apply data security skills to protect customer information.
• Conduct thorough unit, functional, and regression testing.
• Identify root causes of problems and design and implement technical solutions.
• Handle high-severity and critical production issues.
• Proactively develop and design solutions.
• Document work thoroughly.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed