Kyndryl

COBOL Mainframe Developer

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3 days ago
Remote, United States +2 moreSenior
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Responsibilities

  • Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve Production and UAT batch and online application failures.
  • Document incidents, root causes, resolutions, technical designs, functional specifications, process flows, and operational procedures.
  • Support end-to-end Production and UAT batch processing, including providing correction instructions to Operations teams.
  • Gather, analyze, and clarify business requirements directly with business stakeholders.
  • Perform impact analysis and solution design for production issues, enhancements, and service requests.
  • Modify COBOL programs, reporting solutions, batch schedules, and database data based on business requirements.
  • Perform development, unit testing, production installations, and post-implementation support.
  • Monitor and respond to support requests, alerts, and incidents.
  • Coordinate with business users, Operations, Scheduling, infrastructure, and technical teams to deliver changes.
  • Support estimation, planning, testing, implementation, and production validation activities.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Proficiency in COBOL programming within an IBM z/OS environment.
  • Expertise in Job Control Language (JCL).
  • Knowledge of CICS, VSAM, and CA-Datacom.
  • Strong Production Support experience covering batch support, online support, incident resolution, break-fix analysis, and permanent fixes.
  • Familiarity with TSO, ISPF, and SDSF.
  • Experience across requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, implementation, and production support.
  • Ability to independently own enhancements, defects, and service requests through production deployment and post-production support.
  • Experience working directly with customer business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
  • Preferred experience with healthcare applications and claims processing.
  • Preferred experience in a Systems Analyst, Lead Developer, or similar customer-facing technical role.
  • Preferred experience facilitating requirements gathering, solution design, UAT, and implementation planning with business stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience estimating, coordinating, and managing small-to-medium enhancements and service requests.
  • Preferred experience with CA Jobtrac, Endevor or equivalent configuration management tools, and NDM, FTP, or SFTP.

Benefits

  • Work hours align with customer business hours Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM Mountain Time, with equivalent Central and Eastern Time coverage.
  • Participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, is required.
  • Benefits are described as supporting employees and their families with choice and flexibility.
  • Employee learning programs provide access to industry training and certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Skillsoft programs.
  • Employees can use the company-wide volunteering and giving platform to donate, fundraise, and volunteer.
  • Medical or religious COVID-19 vaccination accommodations may be available when applicable.

Tech Stack

COBOL

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About Kyndryl

10,000+ employees

Kyndryl is a public IT services company that designs, runs, and modernizes mission-critical infrastructure for large enterprises and governments. Spun off from IBM in 2021, it is headquartered in New York City and trades on the NYSE (ticker: KD). The company provides managed infrastructure, cloud migration and operations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, plus mainframe, network, security, data, and digital workplace services.

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