Application Support Analyst (Mainframe)
Posted 3 days ago by Exalto Consulting
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
Summary: The Application Support Analyst (Mainframe) role involves supporting and enhancing critical Mainframe applications, particularly in financial and transactional systems. This position is part of a technology and transformation team within a well-established retail business, focusing on maintaining and improving core systems. The role requires a blend of technical support and project involvement, ensuring the reliability and stability of online operations. Candidates should have a strong background in Mainframe support and development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support and enhance mission-critical Mainframe applications
- Focus on financial and transactional systems
- Provide hands-on technical support and engage in system improvements
- Contribute to change delivery and project activities
- Ensure continuity of online operations and modernize existing platforms
Key Skills:
- Proven experience supporting and enhancing Mainframe applications
- Strong knowledge of Cobol-based systems and associated technologies
- Experience working within z/OS environments
- Hands-on exposure to tools and components such as JCL, CICS, DB2, and batch processing
- Familiarity with incident, problem, and change management processes
- Confidence working across both support activities and project delivery
- Experience with financial or transactional systems such as Financier (desirable)
- Exposure to large-scale or retail environments (desirable)
- Involvement in system upgrades, migrations, or major enhancements (desirable)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Bradford
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Initial 12 Month Contract, Inside IR35
Hybrid (Bradford, West Yorkshire - 2 days onsite in Bradford per week)
Exalto Consulting is working with a well-established UK business in the retail sector to appoint an experienced Application Support Analyst on an initial 12 month contract basis (inside IR35).
This organisation operates at scale, with technology playing a critical role in keeping its online and transactional systems running smoothly and reliably.
This role sits within a technology and transformation team responsible for supporting and evolving core systems that underpin day-to-day operations. It offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful, business-critical work where reliability, stability, and continuous improvement genuinely matter.
You will play a key role in supporting and enhancing mission-critical Mainframe applications, with a particular focus on financial and transactional systems. The position combines hands-on technical support with involvement in ongoing system improvements and change delivery.
Your work will directly support the continuity of online operations, while helping to modernise and strengthen existing platforms.
We're keen to speak with candidates who bring a strong foundation in Mainframe support and development, alongside a thoughtful, accountable approach to problem solving.
Essential experience
- Mainframe Applications (Cobol)
- z/OS, JCL, CICS, DB2, and batch processing
- Financial or transactional systems such as Financier
Initial 12 Month Contract, Inside IR35
Hybrid (Bradford, West Yorkshire - 2 days onsite in Bradford per week)
Exalto Consulting is working with a well-established UK business in the retail sector to appoint an experienced Application Support Analyst on an initial 12 month contract basis (inside IR35).
This organisation operates at scale, with technology playing a critical role in keeping its online and transactional systems running smoothly and reliably.
This role sits within a technology and transformation team responsible for supporting and evolving core systems that underpin day-to-day operations. It offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful, business-critical work where reliability, stability, and continuous improvement genuinely matter.
You will play a key role in supporting and enhancing mission-critical Mainframe applications, with a particular focus on financial and transactional systems. The position combines hands-on technical support with involvement in ongoing system improvements and change delivery.
Your work will directly support the continuity of online operations, while helping to modernise and strengthen existing platforms.
We're keen to speak with candidates who bring a strong foundation in Mainframe support and development, alongside a thoughtful, accountable approach to problem solving.
Essential experience
- Proven experience supporting and enhancing Mainframe applications
- Strong knowledge of Cobol-based systems and associated technologies
- Experience working within z/OS environments
- Hands-on exposure to tools and components such as JCL, CICS, DB2, and batch processing
- Familiarity with incident, problem, and change management processes
- Confidence working across both support activities and project delivery
- Experience with financial or transactional systems such as Financier
- Exposure to large-scale or retail environments
- Involvement in system upgrades, migrations, or major enhancements