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Mainframe Application Sr. Consultant
Deloitte Consulting's technology professionals help clients identify and solve their most critical information and technological challenges. We provide advisory through end-to-end implementation services as well as outsourcing services and are recognized in the marketplace for capabilities across the spectrum.
Recruiting for this role ends on 10/1/2026
Our experienced technology professionals offer deep technical experience in their area of focus and are committed to delivering efficient, technology-based solutions to our clients. Our professionals are also aligned to industry sectors. By combining our technical capabilities with our industry experience, we create unmatched market offerings to solve our clients' business issues. Additionally, we have long-term partnerships with many of the world's leading technological companies, allowing us to understand solution alternatives and recommend and support the most appropriate solution for our clients. By leveraging these elements, we can help our clients convert leading edge ideas into tangible results. The Mainframe Application Sr. Consultant will provide AMS support (L2/L3 support) including minor and major enhancements for the client's applications for SAP, Basis systems, Salesforce, Legacy applications.
Work you’ll do
The Mainframe Application Sr. Consultant will support IBM z/VSE production applications, batch jobs, online transactions, and interfaces. Monitor workloads and troubleshoot ABENDs, batch failures, application errors, and data issues. Perform root cause analysis, job restarts, recovery activities, and production validation. Develop and implement application enhancements and production fixes.
Modify COBOL/VSE programs, z/VSE JCL, CICS transactions, SQL, and file-processing logic. Support VSAM files, DB2 for VSE & VM data, CICS/VSE transactions, and batch processing. Prepare and execute unit, functional, integration, regression, SIT, and UAT testing. Develop test cases, coordinate test data and environments, track defects, and perform retesting. Support production implementations, change management, and post-implementation monitoring. Maintain technical documentation, support procedures, and knowledge-transfer materials. Coordinate with business users, project managers, infrastructure teams, vendors, and offshore resources. Provide technical guidance and participate in 24x7 or on-call production support. The successful candidate would possess these skills:
- Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
- Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
- Ability to lead projects or workstreams
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to provide clear guidance to others
The Team
Engineering as a Service provides complete design, implementation, and technology operations, leveraging our core engineering expertise. We transform engineering teams, modernize technology, and deliver complex programs with a product engineering approach. Our flexible delivery models—traditional teams, pools, or pods—are tailored to each client’s needs, offering engineering-led advisory, implementation, and operational capabilities to accelerate innovation.
Required Qualifications
- 8 years of hands-on experience with IBM z/VSE, z/VSE JCL, VSE/POWER, COBOL/VSE, CICS/VSE, VSAM, DB2 for VSE & VM, SQL, embedded SQL, IDCAMS, and batch processing.
- Strong knowledge of ABEND resolution, job-log and SYSLOG analysis, CICS troubleshooting, dumps, root cause analysis, application debugging, job restart and recovery procedures, production incident management, testing, defect management, and release implementation.
- Exposure to CA 7, Control-M, Endeavor, ChangeMan, InterTest, Xpediter, File-AID, ICCF, VSE/Interactive Interface, MVS, OS/390, TSO, ISPF, IDMS, IMS, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder-management, offshore coordination, documentation, and knowledge-transfer skills.
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline; or equivalent experience
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
- Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
Preferred
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder-management, offshore coordination, documentation, and knowledge-transfer skills
- Analytical ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize tasks into manageable work product
- Can operate independently or with minimum supervision
- Excellent Written and Communication Skills
- Ability to deliver technical demonstrations
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
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