Senior Mainframe Developer - COBOL, CICS & Batch Pro

System Soft Technologies; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

System Soft Technologies is seeking a skilled mainframe developer to design, build, and maintain COBOL applications within a z/OS environment. You will work on CICS online processing, batch jobs, and source control using GitHub while coordinating with teams on deployments and issue resolution.

The role emphasizes strong debugging, collaboration, and adherence to CI/CD practices in an Agile setting, with focus on reliability and production support.

Qualifications

• COBOL: strong hands-on programming and debugging experience.
• CICS: experience developing and maintaining online TP applications.
• Batch Processing: batch programs, job execution, scheduling, troubleshooting.
• GitHub: source control, branching/merging, collaboration experience.
• JCL: knowledge of executing and managing mainframe batch jobs.
• Mainframe Environment: experience with IBM z/OS systems.
• Testing and Debugging: troubleshoot issues, analyze abends, production fixes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain mainframe applications in a z/OS environment.
• Troubleshoot production issues and analyze abends to resolve defects.
• Collaborate with teams in an Agile/CI-CD setup and support deployments.

Skills

COBOL

CICS

Batch Processing

GitHub

JCL

Mainframe Environment

Testing and Debugging

Tools

Endevor

Changeman

DB2

VSAM

SQL

Job description

System Soft Technologies is seeking a skilled mainframe developer to design, build, and maintain COBOL applications within a z/OS environment. You will work on CICS online processing, batch jobs, and source control using GitHub while coordinating with teams on deployments and issue resolution.

The role emphasizes strong debugging, collaboration, and adherence to CI/CD practices in an Agile setting, with focus on reliability and production support.