Senior Mainframe COBOL Engineer - Hybrid Finance

Motion Recruitment; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Financial Services Company in Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid) seeks a Software Engineer for an 18-month contract. The role focuses on COBOL mainframe development, batch processing, and data distribution within a core deposits team.

You will work with product and business stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, and support ongoing maintenance of legacy systems in a regulated financial services environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience or equivalent experience
• Strong COBOL development experience in a mainframe environment
• Extensive VSAM knowledge
• Experience maintaining legacy mainframe applications
• Solid understanding of JCL for batch processing
• Experience in Agile environments
• Strong communication with product and business stakeholders
• Ability and willingness to mentor junior engineers
• Banking/financial services experience is key
• Understanding of account numbers, check numbers, routing and related Cobol interactions

Responsibilities

• Consult on or participate in moderately complex initiatives within Software Engineering.
• Review and analyze moderately complex Software Engineering challenges.
• Contribute to resolution of issues and ensure deliverables in line with policies and compliance.
• Collaborate with client personnel in Software Engineering.
• Support and maintain Data Distributor and related applications in the MN core deposits team.
• Modify COBOL programs to meet product and business requirements.
• Validate and distribute data to Hogan IDS, including nightly batch processing.
• Develop and maintain JCL for batch jobs and production workflows.
• Perform testing, validation, and deployments following change processes.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and collaborate with product partners.
• Support production issues and contribute to application stability.
• Mentor and train junior engineers on Hogan and mainframe best practices.

Skills

Software engineering

COBOL

VSAM

JCL

Agile

Stakeholder communication

Mentor junior engineers

Banking/financial services

Mainframe maintenance

Account/routing data handling

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

Financial Services Company in Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid) seeks a Software Engineer for an 18-month contract. The role focuses on COBOL mainframe development, batch processing, and data distribution within a core deposits team.

You will work with product and business stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, and support ongoing maintenance of legacy systems in a regulated financial services environment.