Remote Mainframe Engineer & Tech Lead

Eliassen Group; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 185,976,000 - 214,906,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is actively seeking a skilled Mainframe Engineer to design, develop, test, and support mainframe solutions. You will manage product lifecycles to ensure operational availability, gather data, and analyze capacity and performance.

As a mainframe SME, you will publish roadmaps and coordinate migrations while supporting agile delivery and best practices. The role requires strong mainframe knowledge, leadership in cross-department initiatives, and a focus on automation, documentation,

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 knowledge

Problem solving

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems

Tools

AmTrust accounting system

COBOL

CICS

SAS

MQ

Git

GitHub

TSO

Job description

Eliassen Group is actively seeking a skilled Mainframe Engineer to design, develop, test, and support mainframe solutions. You will manage product lifecycles to ensure operational availability, gather data, and analyze capacity and performance.

As a mainframe SME, you will publish roadmaps and coordinate migrations while supporting agile delivery and best practices. The role requires strong mainframe knowledge, leadership in cross-department initiatives, and a focus on automation, documentation,