Vice President, Mainframe Engineer

MainframeMaster; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

MainframeMaster is seeking a Vice President, Mainframe Engineer to join our Pune team. You will lead critical mainframe development, optimization, and on-call support for essential financial systems.

The role emphasizes mentoring, collaboration with business analysts and QA, and advancing DevOps practices, security controls, and coding standards in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in mainframe development and support for critical financial applications.
• Strong understanding of batch jobs, online transactions and data access.
• Proficient in Cobol, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM and MQ with focus on performance and stability.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and optimize mainframe applications and batch jobs.
• Conduct code reviews, unit testing and debugging to ensure quality.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and standards.
• Collaborate with analysts, QA, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Provide on-call support and RCAs for production issues.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to DevOps initiatives (CI/CD).

Skills

Mainframe development

Batch processing

Code reviews

Mentoring

DevOps awareness

Tools

COBOL

JCL

DB2

CICS

VSAM

MQ

Job description

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Mainframe Engineer to join our team. This role is located in Pune.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Provide specialized technical expertise in mainframe systems development and support, contributing to critical financial services applications. Work collaboratively with engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions while maintaining system stability and performance.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, and VSAM, MQ
• Write and optimize batch jobs, stored procedures, and online transactions
• Perform code reviews, unit testing, and debugging
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide root cause analysis
• Support application deployments and release activities
• Monitor system performance and recommend optimizations
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical system support
• Work with business analysts to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Coordinate with infrastructure teams on environment setup and capacity needs
• Support QA teams with test data preparation and defect resolution
• Mentor junior developers and share technical knowledge
• Participate in mainframe DevOps initiatives (CI/CD, automated testing)
• Identify opportunities for code optimization and technical debt reduction
• Contribute to coding standards and best practices documentation
• Support modernization efforts including API enablement
• Follow change management and release procedures
• Adhere to security policies and coding standards
• Support audit requests and compliance documentation