Senior Mainframe Engineer — Hybrid, Drive Modernization

Cognizant; Bentonville (AR); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Cognizant in Bentonville, AR is seeking a Senior Mainframe Developer to design, develop, and support critical mainframe applications using COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS and SQL, delivering reliable transactional and batch processing.

You will collaborate with business analysts, architects and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions, optimize DB2 and job streams, and perform root-cause analysis to prevent incidents.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on mainframe development experience with COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, and SQL.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and optimizing DB2 databases, stored procedures, queries, and batch-processing solutions.
• Experience with JCL job streams, job scheduling, error handling, recovery procedures, and production troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC), including unit, integration, system, and regression testing.
• Experience with production support, incident management, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, and application reliability.
• Ability to translate business and functional requirements into maintainable technical solutions and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience contributing to system integration, application modernization, automation, or mainframe platform improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain mainframe applications.
• Optimize DB2 databases, schemas, and JCL job streams.
• Analyze code, batch processes, and workflows for performance and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Skills

COBOL

DB2

JCL

CICS

SQL

SDLC

Performance tuning

Root-cause analysis

Agile

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

JCL job streams

Batch processing

Mainframe modernization tools

Job description

Cognizant in Bentonville, AR is seeking a Senior Mainframe Developer to design, develop, and support critical mainframe applications using COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS and SQL, delivering reliable transactional and batch processing.

You will collaborate with business analysts, architects and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions, optimize DB2 and job streams, and perform root-cause analysis to prevent incidents.