Sr Mainframe Developer

Team: IT

Location: India

Commitment: Contract

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Develop and implement technical solutions for healthcare claims applications by translating business requirements into scalable, efficient, and compliant mainframe systems.
• Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, and MQ.
• Follow established coding standards, technical guidelines, and development best practices throughout the application lifecycle.
• Collaborate with business analysts, QA teams, project managers, and support teams to deliver high-quality solutions and support successful project execution.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to offshore development team members and coordinate activities across distributed teams.
• Act as a key technical contact for complex issues and support effective resolution of application and production challenges.
• Troubleshoot production issues, analyze root causes, and optimize application performance.
• Conduct code reviews and support System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), production deployments, and post-implementation activities.
• Manage and support code migration and release processes, including package creation, promotion across Development, Test, QA, and Production environments, post-deployment validation, and backout procedures.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional experience in mainframe application development.
• Strong hands-on experience with COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, and MQ; COBOL, DB2, MQ, and CICS are mandatory.
• Experience with healthcare claims adjudication processes and a strong understanding of related business workflows and operations.
• Solid knowledge of code migration, release management, deployment, validation, and backout processes across multiple environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve complex technical and production support issues.
• Strong understanding of application development and maintenance within enterprise mainframe environments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with business stakeholders and cross-functional and offshore teams.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and mentoring while contributing effectively as part of a collaborative team.
• Consultative approach with the ability to understand business needs and translate them into effective technical solutions.

Benefits:

• Remote work opportunity.
• Contract position.
• Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale healthcare claims applications.
• Exposure to critical mainframe technologies including COBOL, DB2, CICS, MQ, JCL, and VSAM.
• Collaboration with distributed business, technical, QA, project management, and development teams.
• Opportunity to provide technical leadership and mentor offshore team members.
• Experience across application development, production support, testing, deployment, and release management.
• Agile working environment with opportunities to contribute to complex technical solutions.