Mainframe Developer Lead

In-person Interview for Local Candidates Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Mainframe Developer to lead, own, and maintain mission-critical mainframe applications. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise in legacy enterprise systems alongside proven technical leadership to drive application enhancements, production stability, and end-to-end ownership.

• Application Ownership & Leadership: Serve as the technical owner for core mainframe applications, guiding architecture decisions, code reviews, and technical best practices across the team.

• Development & Enhancements: Design, develop, test, and deploy new features and enhancements using COBOL, CICS, and DB2 to meet evolving business requirements.

• Production Support & Maintenance: Lead ongoing application maintenance, troubleshoot complex batch and online production issues, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and ensure high system availability and SLA compliance.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with business analysts, QA teams, and infrastructure groups to translate functional specifications into robust technical designs and coordinate smooth production releases.

• Documentation & Governance: Maintain accurate technical documentation, system runbooks, and change management records throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

• Core Mainframe Stack (Required): Strong hands-on development and debugging experience in COBOL, CICS, and DB2.

• Application Ownership (Required): Proven track record of leading and taking end-to-end technical ownership of enterprise mainframe applications.

• Technical Leadership & Lifecycle Support (Required): Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership across application maintenance, system enhancements, and L2/L3 production support.

• Mainframe Utilities & Tooling (Required): Proficiency with JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, and standard mainframe debugging and source control tools (e.g., Expediter, Endevor, Changeman).

• Problem-Solving & Communication (Required): Strong analytical skills with the ability to resolve critical production incidents under tight timelines and communicate clearly with technical and business stakeholders.

• Experience with modernizing mainframe interfaces or integrating mainframe backends with distributed/cloud platforms (APIs, MQ).

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies alongside traditional Waterfall SDLC processes.

• Prior experience in banking, insurance, or financial services environments.