4 days ago
Mississauga, CanadaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, and VSAM applications.
- Build and optimize batch processing for account processing, interest calculations, fees, investment transactions, income distributions, and tax-slip generation.
- Develop online transactions and interfaces for branch, advice, digital, and call-centre channels.
- Convert functional specifications into technical designs, perform impact analysis, and conduct code reviews.
- Troubleshoot production abends, data issues, and batch delays and participate in on-call support.
- Integrate mainframe applications with distributed systems using MQ, APIs, and z/OS Connect.
- Deploy changes using change and release-management tools while following SDLC and ITIL processes.
- Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Follow security, audit, privacy, regulatory, and segregation-of-duties controls.
Requirements
- At least 5–10+ years of hands-on mainframe development experience, preferably in Canadian retail banking or retail investments.
- Strong proficiency in COBOL, JCL, DB2 including SQL and performance tuning, CICS, and VSAM.
- Experience with DFSORT or SYNCSORT, REXX, and enterprise schedulers such as CA-7, Control-M, or TWS.
- Hands-on experience with Xpediter, Abend-AID, File-AID, and Fault Analyzer.
- Experience developing COBOL programs and copybooks in IDz and using the z/OS Connect toolkit to map OpenAPI JSON schemas to COMMAREA and container data structures.
- Experience integrating z/OS Connect adapters with CICS, IMS, and Db2 subsystems and debugging and tracing API execution on z/OS with IDz tools.
- Experience with Endevor, ChangeMan, or Git-based source-code and release-management platforms.
- Understanding of batch windows, SLAs, restart and recovery design, and data reconciliation.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related field.
- Preferred experience with a Canadian bank, investment dealer, or fund company; retail investment processing; Fundserv; registered plans; withholding tax; and year-end slips.
- Preferred exposure to IMS, PL/I, Assembler, Zowe, Jenkins, IBM DBB, IBM Z Open Development, mainframe-to-cloud integration, API enablement, OSFI B-13, and B-10 guidelines.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $82,600 to $132,600 for roles located in British Columbia, Ontario, or New Brunswick.
- The role requires at least three days per week onsite in Mississauga.
- Benefits information is provided through Accenture’s benefits resource.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services firm providing management consulting, systems integration and technology, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing for enterprises and governments. It operates a services-driven model delivering projects and managed services, often with major cloud and software partners, across industries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin and publicly traded on the NYSE (ACN), it originated as Andersen Consulting and adopted the Accenture name in 2001.