Job Description
Mainframe Developer – COBOL, CICS, DB2
6 Months Contract-to-Hire
Midvale, UT and Salt Lake City, Utah
Position Overview
- Seeking an experienced Mainframe Developer to develop, maintain, enhance, and support mission-critical enterprise applications. The selected candidate will work onsite at the client location in the Midvale/Salt Lake City area.
- This role requires strong hands-on expertise in COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, and Easytrieve . The developer will support online and batch-processing applications, troubleshoot production issues, maintain non-production environments, and coordinate application releases.
- The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a large enterprise environment and collaborating with product managers, business analysts, architects, QA teams, infrastructure teams, release management teams, and offshore development teams.
Key Responsibilities - Design, develop, maintain, and enhance enterprise mainframe applications using COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, and related technologies.
- Analyze business and technical requirements and recommend scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.
- Develop and support CICS online transactions and COBOL-based batch-processing applications.
- Create, update, and troubleshoot JCL jobs and enterprise batch workflows.
- Develop and maintain DB2 programs, queries, stored procedures, and database-related components.
- Work with VSAM datasets and ensure application data accuracy and integrity.
- Use Easytrieve to develop and maintain reports, data extracts, and batch-processing programs.
- Monitor and support Control-M schedules, production jobs, dependencies, and batch-processing workflows.
- Troubleshoot application failures, database issues, batch-processing errors, and testing-environment problems.
- Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement permanent corrective solutions.
- Manage non-production environments, including environment refreshes, deployments, configuration updates, and post-migration validation.
- Coordinate releases and production implementations with QA, infrastructure, release management, change management, and offshore teams.
- Use Endevor or similar source-control and deployment tools to manage application changes.
- Perform mainframe debugging, performance analysis, code reviews, and technical validation.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, user guides, and knowledge-base articles.
- Serve as a technical subject-matter expert for assigned mainframe applications.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical-design discussions, code reviews, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Mentor junior developers through technical coaching, knowledge sharing, and cross-training.
- Provide on-call production support as required for mission-critical applications.
Required Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of experience developing, maintaining, enhancing, and supporting enterprise mainframe applications.
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- COBOL
- CICS — Customer Information Control System
- DB2
- JCL — Job Control Language
- VSAM — Virtual Storage Access Method
- Easytrieve/EZtrieve
- Strong experience with enterprise batch processing and production job support.
- Experience troubleshooting mainframe applications, batch jobs, databases, and production incidents.
- Experience with Control-M scheduling, workflow management, and production job monitoring.
- Experience with Endevor or a comparable mainframe source-control and deployment tool.
- Experience using mainframe debugging and performance-analysis tools.
- Experience supporting multiple enterprise applications in a large, cross-functional environment.
- Experience coordinating with offshore development and support teams.
- Strong analytical, debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to prioritize competing assignments and deliver solutions within project deadlines.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to mentor junior developers and support continuous process improvement.
- Willingness to participate in on-call production support.
- Ability to work onsite five days per week in the Midvale/Salt Lake City, Utah area.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience supporting banking, financial services, insurance, government, or other highly regulated enterprise applications.
- Experience modernizing or improving legacy mainframe applications.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery practices.
- Experience with release management, change management, audit support, and production-readiness activities.
- Experience improving application performance, batch-processing efficiency, automation, and operational reliability.
Required Competencies | Competency | Importance | Proficiency |
| Customer Information Control System — CICS | Required | Experienced |
| Common Business-Oriented Language — COBOL | Required | Experienced |
| IBM Database 2 — DB2 | Required | Experienced |
| Easytrieve/EZtrieve | Required | Experienced |
| Job Control Language — JCL | Required | Experienced |
| Virtual Storage Access Method — VSAM | Required | Experienced |
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Job Tags
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