Responsibilities
Job Title : Mainframe Developer - Programmer - Advanced
Location: Remote 100%
Duration: Long term
Job Type : Contract (We can consider - W2)
Required Skills
- 5+ years of Enterprise COBOL development experience in a z/OS environment
- 5+ Years of Experience with NaturalOne
- 3+ years of JCL development and production support experience
- 3+ years of experience with financial/accounting systems development or support including double-entry posting, balance/accrual maintenance, value dating, reconciliation, and month-end closeouts in a regulated environment
- 3+ years of experience working with Adabas and VSAM
- 3+ years of experience with tracing undocumented logic through copybooks, call chains, and job streams
- These are the skills we expect to see evidence of in the first conversation.
- COBOL — substantial production experience in Enterprise COBOL on z/OS, both batch and online; comfortable extending large existing programs and reading code you did not write.
- NaturalOne — the Eclipse-based Software AG development environment; developing, debugging, and deploying Natural applications from it, including local development and remote z/OS projects.
- Natural and Adabas — Natural programs, subprograms, and maps; DDMs, descriptors and superdescriptors, and Adabas file design and performance behavior.
- z/OS and JCL — writing and debugging JCL, procs, GDGs, utilities, SORT, and restart/rerun handling; fluent in TSO/ISPF.
- Mainframe data stores — VSAM file design and access, and Adabas for z/OS.
- Financial accounting logic — double-entry posting, balance and accrual maintenance, value dating, reconciliation, and month-end close in a regulated environment.
- Analysis of legacy systems — tracing undocumented logic through copybooks, call chains, and job streams, and stating clearly what a change will and will not affect.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with cash management, account pooling, sweeps, or treasury applications
- Experience with CA-7 scheduling and batch operations
- Experience with REXX, Python, or Java
Rate:
Not specified
Location:
Remote
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior