Senior Mainframe Engineer - Remote HealthTech

Optum; Town of Wausau (WI); On-site; USD 92,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum is a global health services company seeking a seasoned mainframe engineer to design, optimize and maintain critical Health Care reporting systems. The role emphasizes COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS and API integration with modern agile practices.

The position allows telecommuting from anywhere in the United States, with expectations to support production deployments, troubleshooting and on-call rotations as needed. Salary ranges are provided based on experience and market factors.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Mainframe technologies (FSE).
• 5+ years of experience with JCL, COBOL.
• 5+ years of experience with DB2, SQL.
• 5+ years of experience with CICS, API.
• 5+ years of experience in REXX.
• 4+ years of experience with Agile, Scrum and Kanban principles.
• 4+ years of knowledge of Airflow or TWSd batch jobs.
• 4+ years of experience in managing code migration through the various stages for the release.
• All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

Responsibilities

• Solid understanding of software engineering processes: Design patterns, algorithms, data structures, schemas and queries, system design, unit testing, code reviews, agile and dev-ops
• Analyze business requirements to develop database solutions for Health Care and Reporting systems
• Provide support for Service Availability, Stability & application performance
• Resolve production issues by code debugging, analyzing logs, perform reverse engineering to find the root cause and suggest permanent fix within
• SLA (Service Level Agreement)
• Available for production deployments/troubleshooting during off hours/weekends

Skills

Mainframe

COBOL

JCL

DB2

SQL

CICS

APIs

REXX

Agile

Scrum

Kanban

Airflow

TWSd

Code migration

Job description

Optum is a global health services company seeking a seasoned mainframe engineer to design, optimize and maintain critical Health Care reporting systems. The role emphasizes COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS and API integration with modern agile practices.

The position allows telecommuting from anywhere in the United States, with expectations to support production deployments, troubleshooting and on-call rotations as needed. Salary ranges are provided based on experience and market factors.