Associate Software Engineer - Mainframe

MainframeMaster; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

MainframeMaster in Toronto is seeking a skilled IBM Mainframe developer to design, build and maintain applications on the COBOL/JCL/DB2/IMS stack, with SAS analytics integration.

You will analyze business requirements, deliver unit and integration tests, provide estimates for initiatives, and support incident resolution, outages, and on-call tasks as needed. The role emphasizes reusable components and collaboration with business teams to ensure timely, quality solutions.

Qualifications

• Requires IBM Mainframe applications systems knowledge.
• Must understand business requirements and relate them to solutions.
• Experience with unit and integration testing and post-production support.

Responsibilities

• Develop new applications and perform unit tests for mainframe initiatives.
• Analyze business requirements and identify components for delivery.
• Provide estimates for new projects and design components with reusability.
• Support incidents, outages, and on-call tasks during deployments.
• Ensure code quality and adherence to architecture standards.
• Assist in knowledge transfer and peer reviews within the team.

Skills

Mainframe development

Cobol

JCL

DB2

IMS

SAS

Job description

Our Product Group technology team is accountable for the end-to-end technology solutions for the TD Loans and Mortgage applications. Our technology is primarily hosted on IBM mainframe system utilizing technology stack of Cobol, JCL, DB2, IMS, and SAS.

• Provides a broad range of system solutions development to business problems through the development and programming of applications / systems.
• Requires IBM Mainframe applications systems knowledge and business knowledge.
• Responsible for analyzing a broad range of business requirements, conducting program / system research and analysis to identify key components for solutions delivery and problem resolution
• Develop new applications and perform unit / component test for new application development initiatives aligned to business needs and in accordance with technology architecture standards
• Support business enquiries and business activities through execution of small enhancements and break / fix implementations (e.g. source code changes)
• Create and maintain quality code, ensure defect free programming consistent with standards; provide code maintenance and support during testing cycles and post-production deployment and participate in reviewing peer coding
• Participate in identifying and recommending development / testing solutions / tools in support of project / application objectives
• Completes unit and integration testing for conformance to standards and adherence to design specifications
• Provide technical expertise during incident management, analyze incident reports and outages, perform impact assessment for incidents and facilitate internal and external communication throughout incident resolution
• Continuously enhance knowledge / expertise in own area and keep current with leading-edge technologies, emerging trends/developments and grow knowledge of the business, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques
• Prioritize and manage own workload in order to deliver quality results and meet timelines as assigned
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team
• Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units
• Subject matter expert in several aspects of the business/technology and consults with clients and/or project teams
• Provide estimates for new projects and initiatives for the development / design component of the overall plan.
• Ensure design leverages existing reusable components and has traceability to business requirements and ensure new modules are designed with reusability as a key requirement.
• Support test phases with environment setup, test case preparation and defect remediation.
• Support deployment phase with implementation planning, verification and incident resolution. Off hour support for deployments.
• Some pager and/or on-call support.