Mainframe Architect & Developer (Cobol/CICS/DB2)

TechDigital Group; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Mainframe Developer with expertise in Cobol, PL1, and various host technologies. This role involves designing and implementing solutions on the MVS platform, with a focus on the health care domain. The ideal candidate will have experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies, as well as strong communication skills to collaborate effectively within teams. Join a forward-thinking organization where your contributions will directly impact the development of innovative solutions in a critical sector. If you have a passion for technology and a desire to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Mainframe technologies and programming languages.
• Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop solutions on MVS platform using host technologies.
• Participate in SDLC processes while ensuring effective communication.

Skills

Mainframe

Cobol

PL1

IMS DB DC

CICS

DB2

Agile

Waterfall

Communication Skills

Job description

• Senior or lead-level architect and hands-on practitioner, able to take initiatives from concept through design, architecture, and working prototypes rather than strategy alone.
• Deep data and information architecture: conceptual, logical, canonical, and semantic data models; authoritative systems of record and reusable data products; source-to-target mapping, data lineage, reconciliation, auditability, metadata, and governance.
• Modern integration and platform fluency across APIs, event streaming (Kafka), ETL/ELT, data virtualization, Lakehouse consumption, and cloud or object storage such as NetApp S3.
• Financial-services domain depth across risk, compliance, finance, and regulatory contexts, with the ability to translate business and regulatory needs into scalable architecture.
• AI-embedded delivery: applies GenAI, agentic AI, LLM/RAG, and knowledge-graph techniques to real use cases and rapid prototypes, while keeping AI governed, explainable, and compliant with Responsible AI, Model Risk, privacy, and security expectations.
• Strong communicator and influencer with executive presence, comfortable presenting to senior leaders and Architecture Review Boards and operating independently in ambiguous, matrixed environments.
• Typically 7+ years in engineering and solution architecture, with 5+ years in a relevant financial-services domain, and familiarity with an enterprise architecture framework such as TOGAF.

Role:Finance & Risk Lead Architect (Supporting Finance & Risk Architecture) - A hands-on Lead Architect supporting mission-critical Finance and Risk initiatives across Corporate Financial Accounting, CIB Capital Markets Accounting, Regulatory Reporting, and Investment Portfolio.

• Own end-to-end architecture for Finance and Risk initiatives, including sub-ledger modernization, corporate accounting, CIB capital-markets accounting, regulatory reporting, and investment portfolio.
• Define current-, target-, interim-, and transition-state architectures with actionable roadmaps and reusable patterns across data, applications, APIs, events, and cloud or object storage.
• Advance information architecture using authoritative sources, data products, lineage, governance, reconciliation, auditability, and accounting-event models.
• Bring working knowledge of regulatory reporting (Basel III and Basel III Endgame, CCAR, FR Y-9C, FFIEC, Broker-Dealer, and Axiom), plus financial-accounting event processing, close cycles, and GL/Sub-Ledger integration.
• Apply AI/ML and agentic AI to accounting, external reporting, reconciliation, controls, and data-quality use cases.
• Typically 5+ years in Corporate Accounting, Regulatory Reporting, Investment Portfolio, or a closely related finance domain, in addition to the common architecture bar above.

What Makes a Strong Match
We are looking for a builder-minded architect who pairs strategic vision with hands-on execution: someone who structures ambiguity, makes sound decisions, and drives initiatives independently. The strongest candidates combine data-architecture depth, financial-services domain fluency, and practical AI skill to deliver solutions that are governed, resilient, and auditable, and they bring the executive presence to align business, risk, data, and engineering stakeholders.

Please submit profiles that clearly evidence this blend of domain, technology, and AI capability, indicating which of the two roles each candidate best fits.