Mainframe Engineer project

• Participate in architecture design initiatives that shape mainframe and hybrid-platform solutions.
• Implement and contribute to application and system-level architectures for high-performance, resilient mainframe environments.
• Ensure production readiness, quality assurance, performance, and compliance with enterprise standards.
• Author and maintain documentation including architecture diagrams, integration specifications, and runbooks.
• Identify engineering risks and contribute to mitigation strategies to ensure system resilience.
• Collaborate across teams to align on schedules and manage cross-functional dependencies.
• Champion production stability by proactively monitoring, diagnosing, and resolving system issues and driving root-cause analysis.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 6+ years of experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years of experience.

Experience: Proven experience designing, engineering, and optimizing mission-critical mainframe applications. A background in modernizing legacy mainframe systems and integrating with distributed or cloud architectures is required.

Technical Skills: Deep expertise with COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, batch/online processing, IOM, and enterprise batch scheduling tools. Advanced SQL proficiency across DB2, Oracle, and/or Postgres with strong data analysis and performance debugging skills.

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