Mainframe COBOL Engineer - Hybrid Role

Genworth Financial, Inc.; Lynchburg (VA); Hybrid; USD 96,700 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation & incentives

Healthcare coverage

401(k) and retirement options

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Genworth Financial, Inc. in Virginia (Lynchburg/Richmond) seeks an Application Developer – COBOL to support the CLOAS mainframe system in a hybrid arrangement.

You will monitor, diagnose, and resolve incidents while collaborating with IT and business partners to implement changes, reports, and regulatory-compliant data analyses. The role emphasizes strong COBOL/JCL/CICS/IMS skills, SQL analysis, and cross-functional teamwork within an agile environment, with a national pay range and bonus

Qualifications

• 4-year college degree and relevant equivalent experience with strong mainframe (COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS) programming skills and production support experience preferably in insurance/finance domain.
• Excellent analytical skills and a detail-oriented mindset, with ability to understand complex business logic, analyze the system and data, to identify changes needed, and understand impact of changes on the various products and system functionalities.
• Basic experience with SQL and data analysis.
• Experience working in a cross-functional team environment on a complex mainframe system and having good problem-solving skills and a results-oriented outlook.
• Good communication skills ability to work with various stakeholders, managing concurrent deadlines and multiple priorities.
• A continuous improvement mindset, and willingness to adapt to new technologies and ways of working

Responsibilities

• Support the Long Term Care policy administration system, by monitoring the system, resolving failures, job abends, policy related incidents, system defects, and by maintaining the interactions of the application with peripheral systems.
• Analyze incidents raised by users to assist them with completing business activities, determine the impact of the issue and come up with solution proposals to formulate the right approach to solve the problem.
• Design, Code, Document and Test the solution ensuring that it meets acceptance criteria, does not cause unintended impact and fits within the overall technical architecture. Support your changes through the testing process, assist with test planning, defect resolution and technical system activities. Implement the solution following the established change control process
• Create reports from the system data to perform data analysis, support business activities, and fulfil regulatory and audit requirements including SOX audits.
• Perform administrative duties in conjunction with the departmental requirements (participate in meetings, agile ceremonies (Kanban Stand Ups, Inspect and Adapt sessions etc.), respond to correspondence in a timely manner, provide status updates, review/update/submit tickets, participate in change management activities).
• Take ownership of work and collaborate with the team to ensure incidents are completed in a timely manner considering their severity, impact and urgency. Assist team members in resolving complex business and/or technical problems. Provide technical advice on complex programming.

Skills

Mainframe COBOL

JCL

CICS

IMS

SQL

Agile/Scrum/Kanban

Problem solving

Communication

Education

4-year college degree

Tools

IMS database

Job description

Genworth Financial, Inc. in Virginia (Lynchburg/Richmond) seeks an Application Developer – COBOL to support the CLOAS mainframe system in a hybrid arrangement.

You will monitor, diagnose, and resolve incidents while collaborating with IT and business partners to implement changes, reports, and regulatory-compliant data analyses. The role emphasizes strong COBOL/JCL/CICS/IMS skills, SQL analysis, and cross-functional teamwork within an agile environment, with a national pay range and bonus