Lead Mainframe Developer: COBOL, CICS, DB2

System One

Salt Lake City (UT)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

System One is seeking an experienced Mainframe Developer to design, develop, maintain, and support mission critical enterprise mainframe applications based onsite in the Salt Lake City, UT area. You will collaborate with architects, developers, BAs, QA, and client stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on mainframe experience with COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and tools like Endevor and Control-M.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
5+ years of experience designing, developing, maintaining, and supporting enterprise mainframe applications.
Strong hands on experience with: COBOL JCL CICS DB2 VSAM.
Experience supporting enterprise batch processing, production support, troubleshooting, and application maintenance.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, maintain, and enhance enterprise mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM.
Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Solution Architects, and development teams to deliver scalable, high quality software solutions that meet evolving business needs.
Research, analyze, and recommend technical solutions, enhancements, and best practices to improve application performance, reliability, and maintainability.
Provide technical support for mainframe applications by troubleshooting application, batch processing, database, and testing environment issues.
Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, user guides, and knowledge base articles to support long term application sustainability.
Manage and maintain non production environments, including environment refreshes, deployments, configuration updates, and post migration validation activities.
Monitor and support Control M batch processing workflows to ensure reliable job execution, scheduling accuracy, and operational efficiency.
Partner with release management, change management, QA, infrastructure, and offshore development teams to coordinate deployments, environment readiness, and production implementations.
Support data integrity, automation initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts by identifying opportunities to improve operational processes and system performance.
Serve as the technical subject matter expert (SME) for supported applications, providing guidance during enhancements, production support, audits, and release activities.
Investigate, debug, and resolve production issues while implementing long term corrective solutions.
Mentor junior developers through knowledge sharing, cross training, and technical coaching.
Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical design discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Provide on call production support as needed to ensure the availability and reliability of mission critical applications.