Mainframe Development and Application Support Specialist

Judge India Solutions; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Judge India Solutions in Chennai seeks a Mainframe Development and Application Support Specialist with 6+ years of IT experience to join a role based in Chennai with four days of work-from-office weekly.

You will engage with customers to understand use-cases, design and deliver mainframe solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The role involves defining test strategies, improving performance, and ensuring secure, scalable back-end systems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in IT with at least 4+ years in development.

Responsibilities

• Understand user use-cases and requirements, focusing on user-centric solutions.
• Design, develop, and deliver software using appropriate stacks and methodologies.
• Select tech stack and deployment strategy based on requirements.
• Create high-level architecture designs outlining components and interfaces.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product owners, designers, and architects.
• Define and implement test strategy, guidelines, and processes.
• Improve performance and adopt new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Adopt test-driven development and CI/CD practices.
• Support security practices including encryption and data anonymization.
• Create user-friendly interfaces and backend APIs/microservices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and monitor new stack layers and industry trends.

Skills

Mainframe Systems

Endevor

SPUFI

File Manager

COBOL

JCL

DB2

IMS DB/DC

Tools

Endevor

SPUFI

File Manager

COBOL

JCL

DB2

IMS DB/DC

Job description

Position

Mainframe Development and Application Support Specialist

Rel. Experience

6+ Years

Work mode

Chennai (4 days WFO/week)

Key Responsibilities

1. Engage with customers to deeply understand their use-cases, pain points, and requirements, showcasing empathy and advocating for user-centric software solutions

2. Solve complex problems by designing, developing, and delivering using various tools, languages, frameworks, methodologies (like agile) and technologies

3. Assess the requirements of the software application or service and determine the most suitable technology stack, integration method, deployment strategy, etc.

4. Create high-level software architecture designs that outline the overall structure, components, and interfaces of the application

5. Collaborate with cross functional teams like product owners, designers, architects etc.

6. Define and implement software test strategy, guidelines, policies and processes in line with organization vision, industry regulations and market best practices.

7. Work on continuously improving performance and optimizing the application and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

8. Familiar with programming practices, such as test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery

9. Support security practices to safeguard user data including encryption and anonymization.

10. Create user-friendly and interactive interfaces

11. Develop and maintain back-end applications like APIs and microservices using server-side languages

12. Evaluate and incorporate emerging technologies and capabilities to deliver their solutions, and are monitoring and participating in solutions for new stack layers, often involving industry collaboration

Skills Required

Mainframe Systems

Skills Preferred

IBM DB2, COBOL, IMS, JCL

Experience Required

6+ years in IT; 4+ years in development

Experience Preferred

Strong technical skills in mainframe technologies (COBOL,JCL,DB2,IMS DB/DC) . IMS DB/DC is must. Experience in Endevor, SPUFI and File Manager. Resource should have hands‑on and coding experience in mainframe technologies and should be able to provide break fix/development activity as well. Good understanding about Architect Framework & Security and Controls. Good knowledge of Agile Central/Rally to report back the status.