Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: As an IBM TX Series Developer with CICS, you will enhance and modernize critical business applications developed in C, running on IBM TXSeries with CICS. The role involves collaboration with infrastructure and cloud teams to transition workloads to hybrid or cloud-native platforms. You will also be responsible for migrating application logic to modern architectures and implementing best practices for transaction applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze, maintain, and enhance applications developed in C using EXEC CICS commands.
- Understand and work with TXSeries CICS region configuration and transaction flows.
- Recompile CICS-based C applications for modern Linux environments.
- Design and implement solutions to containerize or replatform legacy transactional workloads.
- Migrate CICS application logic to modern microservices or API-based architecture where appropriate.
- Collaborate with architects, DBAs, and MQ teams to ensure end-to-end transaction flow.
- Implement logging, observability, and CI/CD practices for C-based transaction apps.
Key Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience in C programming.
- Expertise with TXSeries / CICS on AIX/Linux/Windows.
- Familiarity with CICS commands (EXEC CICS SEND, LINK, RETURN, etc.).
- Knowledge of DB2, Oracle, or VSAM integration.
- Experience with IBM MQ or similar messaging systems.
- Understanding of transactional systems, syncpoints, and error handling in CICS.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: IBM TX Series Developer with CICS
Location: Remote
Duration: Long term
Role
As a TXSeries CICS Application Developer, you will be responsible for enhancing, maintaining, and modernizing critical business applications developed in C and running on IBM TXSeries with CICS. You will work closely with infrastructure and cloud teams to transition these workloads to hybrid or cloud-native platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift or HCI environments. Key Responsibilities
- Analyze, maintain, and enhance applications developed in C using EXEC CICS commands.
- Understand and work with TXSeries CICS region configuration and transaction flows.
- Recompile CICS-based C applications for modern Linux environments.
- Design and implement solutions to containerize or replatform legacy transactional workloads.
- Migrate CICS application logic to modern microservices or API-based architecture where appropriate.
- Collaborate with architects, DBAs, and MQ teams to ensure end-to-end transaction flow.
- Implement logging, observability, and CI/CD practices for C-based transaction apps.
Skills
- Strong hands-on experience in C programming.
- Expertise with TXSeries / CICS on AIX/Linux/Windows.
- Familiarity with CICS commands (EXEC CICS SEND, LINK, RETURN, etc.).
- Knowledge of DB2, Oracle, or VSAM integration.
- Experience with IBM MQ or similar messaging systems.
- Understanding of transactional systems, syncpoints, and error handling in CICS.