Remote COBOL Mainframe Developer

Kyndryl Inc.; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyndryl is seeking a senior mainframe engineer to join a remote U.S. team.

You will own end-to-end production and UAT batch and online support, collaborating with AMS technical leadership and operations to ensure service reliability and compliance with business requirements. Ideal candidates bring 10–15 years in mainframe development and support ( COBOL, JCL, CICS ), plus strong analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.
• 10–15 years of mainframe development and support experience, healthcare preferred.
• Aligned with customer business hours and 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Proficiency in COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, and mainframe tools.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve Production and UAT batch and online application failures.
• Document incidents, root causes, resolutions, technical designs, and operational procedures.
• Support UAT and Production batch processing from start to finish, including providing correction instructions to Operations teams.
• Engage directly with business stakeholders to gather, analyze, and clarify business requirements.
• Perform impact analysis and solution design for production issues, enhancements, and service requests.
• Create and maintain functional specifications, technical design documents, process flows, and operational documentation.
• Modify COBOL programs, reporting solutions, batch schedules, and database data based on business requirements.
• Perform development, unit testing, production installations, and post-implementation support.
• Monitor and respond to support requests, alerts, and incidents.
• Act as a liaison between business users, Operations, Scheduling, and technical teams to ensure successful delivery of changes.
• Support effort estimation, planning, testing, implementation, and production validation activities.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Documentation skills

Independent work

Customer stakeholder interaction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Tools

COBOL

JCL

CICS

VSAM

CA-Datacom

TSO/ISPF/SDSF

CA Jobtrac

Endevor

Job description

Kyndryl is seeking a senior mainframe engineer to join a remote U.S. team.

You will own end-to-end production and UAT batch and online support, collaborating with AMS technical leadership and operations to ensure service reliability and compliance with business requirements. Ideal candidates bring 10–15 years in mainframe development and support ( COBOL, JCL, CICS ), plus strong analytical and communication skills.