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# Mainframe Developer

- **Company:** Calance Consulting Corporation
- **Location:** Torrance, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $138,632.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Unit Testing, Customer Information Control System (CICS), COBOL (Programming Language), Information Systems, IBM DB2, Job Control Language (JCL), IBM Mainframe, Mainframes, Software Engineering
- **Published:** July 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=deaa4a36c2398d42

## About the Role

Must have a stable work history- -
5+ years recent/current experience as a Mainframe Developer with COBOL, CICS, MQ, DB2, and JCL.
Experience with Financial Services, and/or Consumer Finance
Understands Financial Services lending, Customer Service, Payment Processing, Taxes, End of Term and Extension processes, Collections, Delinquency Tracking, Repossession, Charge Off, Recovery,
Bankruptcy, and Accounting etc.
Familiarity with test practices and deliverables for unit test
Excellent written and oral communication skills

HIGHLY DESIRED:
Experience with Fidelity Information Systems (FIS) - Systematics
Experience with Automotive Finance

## Description

Application Development and Production Support for multiple large projects
Research and resolve production issues, troubleshooting of mainframe on-line and batch abends
Evaluate the daily and monthly batch process to improve performance and shorten the critical path window
Perform Impact Analysis across multiple platforms and applications
Deliver complete documentation for estimates, design and development
IBM mainframe COBOL, CICS, MQ, DB2, JCL
On-call support nightly batch production support


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