Remote Mainframe Engineer — Lead & Innovate

Eliassen Group; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Mainframe Engineer to design, develop, test, and support mainframe applications for a financial services client. The role emphasizes setting roadmaps for development tools, coordinating cross-department migrations, and delivering agile, high-availability solutions.

The candidate will act as a mainframe SME, drive architecture across services, and mentor teams while ensuring code quality and compliance with industry standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with AmTrust accounting system.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or comparable experience.
• Expert knowledge of mainframe operating systems and hardware.
• Strong knowledge of TSO and mainframe technology.
• Experience with COBOL, CICS, SAS, and MQ.
• Background in Wealth and Asset Management.
• Knowledge of functional software design and development best practices.
• Experience with Git and GitHub.
• Understanding of software development methodologies.
• Strong problem solving and collaboration skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as mainframe subject matter expert.
• Participate in infrastructure planning and provide insight into future technology directions.
• Maintain thorough understanding of current and future infrastructure.
• Establish, document, and publish mainframe language and development tool directions and roadmaps.
• Coordinate cross-department projects involving mainframe application migrations.
• Demonstrate broad technical knowledge across multiple technologies or deep expertise in one technology and its impacts.
• Maintain awareness of industry developments and quickly apply new concepts.
• Build productive networks with internal and external customers, vendors, and industry peers.
• Ensure proper documentation of complex technical systems for effective operational handover.
• Lead implementation efforts, analyze vendor proposals, evaluate build versus buy, plan projects, establish critical paths, coordinate vendors, build and conduct tests, and track progress.
• Design and implement new features while improving product and application quality.
• Create and execute long-term vision of technical products and applications.
• Act as a technical expert and developer on an agile squad and participate in agile ceremonies.
• Drive architecture of solutions across multiple services and applications.
• Develop software that meets code quality standards and metrics and practice test-driven development.
• Guide communities of practice by mentoring developers, creating and enforcing standards, reviewing code, and sharing knowledge.
• Achieve operational excellence by automating processes and writing maintainable, supportable, and testable code.
• Partner with operations and engineering teams to drive service improvement.
• Remain current on IT trends for the practice area and assist with problem resolution for end users and customers.
• Create and update operations procedures for routine management processes and maintain controls and documentation for audit compliance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Mainframe SME

Problem solving

Communication

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Tools

COBOL

CICS

SAS

MQ

TSO

Git

GitHub

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Mainframe Engineer to design, develop, test, and support mainframe applications for a financial services client. The role emphasizes setting roadmaps for development tools, coordinating cross-department migrations, and delivering agile, high-availability solutions.

The candidate will act as a mainframe SME, drive architecture across services, and mentor teams while ensuring code quality and compliance with industry standards.