Mainframe Developer

Project overview

For our client in the financial sector, we are looking for a Mainframe Developer to support the project, starting immediately.

Background

Host 4.0 Replacement

Responsibilities

• Maintenance and support of mainframe batch processes
• Application development on the mainframe: Creation and maintenance of Cobol programs
• Creation of evaluations and research from the customer data environment
• Independent monitoring, analysis, and troubleshooting of customer data processing
• Detailed analysis of the current system and creation of change concepts
• Creation of system documentation

Requirements

• Several years of project experience in the IBM mainframe environment (Must Have: Mainframe Batch Processing, JCL, COBOL, DB2 SQL)
• Very good knowledge of CICS, Cobol, zOS, IBM DB2, and common third-party tools
• Ability to communicate complex issues understandably
• Strong analytical thinking skills
• Experience with modern deployment and versioning methods is desirable: Deployment pipeline via GitHub Actions, versioning via GitHub, Unit Tests, etc.
• Experience in dealing with self-organized, working teams is desirable
• Flexibility and a strong service mentality
• Strong ability to quickly and largely independently familiarize oneself with new areas of responsibility as well as a complex and historically grown system
• Experience in using REST APIs in conjunction with the mainframe is desirable
• Very good German language skills (min. language level C2)

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 13 Monate
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Mannheim, Deutschland, DE
• Languages: German