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# COBOL Mainframe Developer 13+ Years Exp

- **Company:** ACS -
- **Location:** Albany, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $97,968.0 - $120,750.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Application Performance Management, Batch Processing, Customer Information Control System (CICS), COBOL (Programming Language), Databases, IBM DB2, Database Development, Database Storage Structures, Software Debugging, Job Control Language (JCL), IBM Mainframe, IBM WebSphere MQ, Job Scheduling, Mainframes, Performance Tuning, Queueing Systems, Software Engineering, Extensible Markup Language (XML), XQuery, Z/OS, Enterprise Application Integration, Transaction Processing (Computing), Enterprise Software Applications, Asynchronous Programming
- **Published:** July 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us311d1aeb501535566f614f749add91b4

## About the Role

* Experience providing technical design, development, maintenance, enhancement, and end-user support for complex Tax Accounting Systems within a Government Taxation organization.
 * Experience developing, maintaining, debugging, and enhancing COBOL applications in an IBM Mainframe environment.
 * Experience working with IBM DB2 for LUW, administering and querying large-scale databases (1TB or larger), and utilizing XQuery for XML data processing and retrieval.
 * Experience developing and maintaining applications using IDMS databases and DMLO within an IBM mainframe environment.
 * Experience developing and supporting enterprise applications using Application Productivity System (APS) and CICS transaction processing in a mainframe environment.
 * Experience implementing and supporting IBM MQ Series for reliable message queuing, asynchronous communication, and enterprise application integration.
 * Experience designing, developing, and optimizing applications using IBM DB2 for z/OS, including complex database structures, SQL development, and performance optimization.
 * Experience creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting IBM MVS Job Control Language (JCL) for batch processing, job scheduling, and production support.
 * Experience using Time Sharing Option (TSO) for application development, program execution, dataset management, debugging, and system administration in an IBM mainframe environment.
 * Experience performing application performance analysis, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and optimization to improve system efficiency, resource utilization, and overall application performance.



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