Remote Mainframe Engineer - Senior COBOL & CICS Expert

Eliassen Group; Des Moines (IA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Mainframe Engineer for a remote, contract engagement. You will design, develop, test, configure, and support mainframe technologies in a Financial Services environment, ensuring available and scalable systems and aligning with capacity plans.

As the mainframe SME, you will publish language and tool roadmaps, coordinate cross‑department migrations, and support agile delivery while applying software development best practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with AmTrust accounting system.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or comparable experience, with 20+ years of related work.
• Expert knowledge of mainframe operating systems and hardware.

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

Collaboration

Verbal & written comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or comparable

Tools

COBOL

CICS

SAS

MQ

Git

GitHub

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Mainframe Engineer for a remote, contract engagement. You will design, develop, test, configure, and support mainframe technologies in a Financial Services environment, ensuring available and scalable systems and aligning with capacity plans.

As the mainframe SME, you will publish language and tool roadmaps, coordinate cross‑department migrations, and support agile delivery while applying software development best practices.