Mainframe Engineer - COBOL

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze business requirements and identify application modernization opportunities.
• Contribute to the solutioning, design, and implementation of modernization strategies, including mainframe migration, refactoring, and callouts to distributed platforms.
• Evaluate legacy systems to propose enhancements for scalability, performance, and overall maintainability.
• Develop and maintain automated processes for legacy applications to ensure operational consistency.
• Mentor technical team members and share knowledge to help developers augment their skillsets across mainframe and distributed technologies.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends regarding legacy application modernization.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, and platform teams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Commit to project timelines and proactively resolve obstacles to deliver high-quality technical results.

Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

Experience: At least 10 years of experience in software development, including a minimum of 3 years in a lead or co-lead capacity. Proven experience with high-volume transaction processing within the financial services industry is required.

Technical Skills: Proficiency in mainframe technologies including COBOL, JCL, DB2, Datacom, SQL, SQL Stored Procedures, Messaging Queues (IBM MQ, Kafka), CICS, Easytrieve, REXX, and SORT utilities. Experience utilizing tools such as Control-M, ChangeMan, FileAid, Startool, STARBAT, Xpeditor, TOAD, and SPUFI is required. Demonstrated experience utilizing AI tools and AI agents to enhance development productivity is necessary., * Familiarity with file transmissions, cloud technologies, SPOS, mainframe-to-distributed service callouts, security tokens, and authentication mechanisms.

• Experience with distributed and cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Platform, Java, JavaScript, .NET, C#, Spring Boot, MongoDB, and Postgres.
• Strong understanding of high-volume transactions processing and posting, including batch and real-time systems.
• Experience mentoring geographically distributed software development teams.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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