Mainframe developer( Cobol, JCL, DB2)

Role : Senior Mainframe Developer

Required Qualifications

- 5-10 years of relevant experience in mainframe application development, maintenance, and production support.

- Strong hands-on expertise in COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, JCL, and IBM z/OS.

- Experience developing, supporting, and troubleshooting both online and batch mainframe applications.

- Hands-on experience providing production batch support, including incident triage, abend resolution, job recovery, and service restoration.

- Proven experience delivering solutions in an Agile environment while adhering to development best practices, coding standards, and testing procedures.

- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities, with exceptional attention to detail.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment. Preferred Mainframe Technical Skillset

- COBOL programming, enhancement, debugging, and application maintenance.

- CICS online transaction development, support, and performance troubleshooting.

- DB2 database programming, SQL development, query optimization, and performance tuning.

- JCL development, batch job scheduling, monitoring, restart, recovery, and dependency management.

- VSAM file handling, dataset management, and mainframe file-processing concepts.

- Mainframe utilities including SORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, DFSORT, and SYNCSORT.

- TSO, ISPF, SDSF, SPUFI, and production job-management tools.

- Production support, incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, problem management, and service restoration.

- MQ, CICS web services, and integration between mainframe and distributed applications.

- Performance tuning for COBOL programs, CICS transactions, DB2 SQL, and batch jobs.

- Mainframe application design, code review, testing, deployment, release support, and documentation. full stack