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# Mainframe Programmer

- **Company:** Everforth Apex
- **Location:** Brookfield, WI, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $104,000.0 - $114,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Unit Testing, Business Software, COBOL (Programming Language), IBM DB2, Job Control Language (JCL), Mainframes, Integration Tests
- **Published:** June 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/5be03bb5-91fe-4b9c-bc15-5896bf85e8b5

## About the Role

Experience: A minimum of 5 years of experience is required.

Technical Skills: Proficiency in Mainframe COBOL, DB2, and JCL is necessary.

## Description

This role involves working on an agile team to develop and maintain Product and Rewards applications. The position focuses on standing up new instances of Rewards job streams for future use within the Credit Product Development Journey. The development process includes coding, unit testing, integration testing, and supporting user acceptance testing., * Work on an agile team for the Product and Rewards applications.

 * Attend team agile ceremonies.
 * Utilize and understand JCL, Job streams, and CA-7.
 * Perform coding, unit testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing.
 * Engage in the full life cycle development process for business applications.
 * Support, modify, and enhance existing applications to meet current needs.


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