COBOL Mainframe Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Collaborate directly with business stakeholders and work alongside AMS technical leadership, infrastructure teams, Batch & Console Operations, and Batch Scheduling teams.

• Provide support for Production and UAT batch and online environments.

• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve failures in Production and UAT batch and online applications.

• Document incidents, root causes, resolutions, technical designs, and operational procedures.

• Oversee the entire batch processing cycle for UAT and Production.

• Offer corrective instructions to Operations teams.

• Collect, analyze, and clarify business requirements.

• Conduct impact analysis and design solutions for production issues, enhancements, and service requests.

• Develop and maintain functional specifications, technical design documents, process flows, and operational documentation.

• Modify COBOL programs, reporting solutions, batch schedules, and database data.

• Carry out development, unit testing, production installations, and provide post-implementation support.

• Monitor and respond to support requests, alerts, and incidents.

• Act as a liaison between business users, Operations, Scheduling, and technical teams.

• Assist in effort estimation, planning, testing, implementation, and validation activities in production.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• 10–15 years of experience in mainframe application development and support, ideally within the healthcare sector.

• Working hours that align with customer business hours, Monday to Friday, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Mountain Time (MT).

• Participation in a 24x7 on-call support rotation, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

• Proficiency in COBOL programming within an IBM z/OS environment.

• Expertise in Job Control Language (JCL).

• Knowledge of CICS, VSAM, and CA-Datacom.

• Strong experience in Production Support, including batch support, online support, incident resolution, break-fix analysis, and permanent fixes.

• Familiarity with TSO, ISPF, and SDSF.

• Experience across the software development lifecycle.

• Ability to independently manage enhancements, defects, and service requests from production deployment through post-production support.

• Experience working directly with customer business stakeholders and translating their needs into technical solutions.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking capabilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

• Preferred experience in healthcare applications and claims processing.

• Preferred experience in a Systems Analyst, Lead Developer, or similar customer-facing technical role.

• Preferred experience in facilitating requirements gathering, solution design, UAT, and implementation planning.

• Preferred experience in estimating and managing small-to-medium enhancements and service requests.

• Preferred experience with CA Jobtrac.

• Preferred experience with Endevor or equivalent configuration management tools.

• Preferred experience with NDM, FTP, and SFTP.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employee learning programs and access to industry learning resources.

• Access to certifications, including those from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more.

• Company-wide volunteering and giving platform.

• Support for diversity and inclusion through Kyndryl Inclusion Networks.

• Benefits that support employees and their families.

• Potential medical or religious accommodations related to COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

• Employee referral program.