Mainframe Developer in Jersey City, NJ/Jacksonville FL

Position : Mainframe Developer

Location: Jersey City, NJ/Jacksonville FL -Onsite

Duration: Full Time

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

· Strong hands-on experience with COBOL, JCL, and VSAM for batch application development and maintenance.

· Extensive experience with CICS (online transaction processing), including program design and support.

· Very good working knowledge of DB2 and SQL, including usage of stored procedures.

· Proficient in mainframe file utilities such as IDCAMS, SORT, and IEBGENER.

· Experience using debugging and diagnostic tools such as Fault Analyzer for issue resolution.

· Hands-on experience with job schedulers (CA-11) and batch job monitoring.

· Working knowledge of version control and configuration management tools such as Endevor and ISPW.

· Experience with integration technologies including MQ, Web Services, and z/OS Connect.

· Strong understanding of end-to-end mainframe application architecture, including batch, online, and integration components.

· Ability to work in a multi-technology environment and willingness to understand upstream and downstream systems.

· Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with multiple teams across business and technology.

Roles & Responsibilities

· Gather status updates on assigned deliverables and report progress, risks, and issues to the management team.

· Promptly identify and escalate risks or issues and proactively drive them to resolution.

· Coordinate and facilitate delivery routines such as kick-off meetings, status reviews, and stakeholder discussions.

· Participate in coordination discussions to establish priorities and timelines for deliverables.

· Design, develop, enhance, and support mainframe applications using COBOL, CICS, DB2, and JCL.

· Perform production deployments and provide technical support for applications in production environments.

· Collaborate closely with QA teams, business analysts, project managers, and other technical teams.

· Conduct code reviews, ensure adherence to coding standards, and contribute to application design decisions.

· Support defect resolution, performance tuning, and production issue troubleshooting.

· Work within an Agile delivery model, participating in ceremonies and continuous improvement initiatives.