Mainframe Developer

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain IBM z/OS mainframe applications using COBOL, CICS, JCL, and VSAM.
• Develop and maintain CICS online transaction-processing applications, including screens, transactions, programs, and maps.
• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into technical specifications and program designs.
• Develop, modify, and debug COBOL programs for both online CICS and batch processing.
• Create and maintain JCL for application execution, file processing, job scheduling, and production support.
• Develop and maintain VSAM datasets including KSDS, ESDS, and RRDS, and handle associated file-processing requirements.
• Coordinate with business analysts, QA teams, architects, production support, and offshore/onshore development teams.
• Participate in application migration, modernization, enhancement, and release activities.
• Prepare technical documentation, test plans, deployment documentation, and operational procedures.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in COBOL, CICS, JCL, and VSAM.
• Good knowledge of IBM z/OS mainframe environment and mainframe application development.
• Experience in developing and maintaining CICS online transactions and COBOL batch programs.
• Good understanding of JCL, job scheduling, dataset handling, GDG, and mainframe utilities.
• Hands-on experience with VSAM KSDS, ESDS, RRDS and file processing.
• Experience with CICS BMS, COMMAREA, transaction processing, and CICS file handling.
• Good knowledge of DB2 and embedded SQL in COBOL.
• Strong skills in debugging, production support, abend analysis, and issue resolution.
• Experience with tools such as SDSF, ISPF, Abend-AID, File-AID, and IDCAMS.
• Good understanding of SDLC, testing, code review, deployment, and production support processes.

We look forward to speaking with you and wish you the best for your interview.

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