17 days ago
Hartford, CT, USASenior
Base Salary
$65k - $117k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain healthcare claims applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, and MQ.
- Translate business requirements into scalable, efficient, and compliant mainframe solutions supporting claims adjudication workflows.
- Troubleshoot production issues, optimize application performance, conduct code reviews, and implement sustainable fixes.
- Support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, code migration, production deployment, post-implementation validation, and backout activities.
- Provide technical leadership to offshore team members and coordinate onsite and offshore delivery.
- Collaborate with business analysts, quality assurance professionals, project managers, support teams, and engineering teams.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of hands-on experience developing mainframe applications with COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, and MQ.
- Experience with healthcare claims adjudication processes and related business workflows.
- Knowledge of code migration and release management, including package creation, environment promotion, deployment validation, and backout procedures.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills for complex application and production issues.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently in an Agile onsite and offshore delivery environment.
- Experience providing technical guidance or mentoring to distributed engineering teams is preferred.
- Experience conducting code reviews, improving mainframe application performance, and supporting testing and production activities is preferred.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to business and technology stakeholders is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- 401(k) plan and contributions.
- Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Eligible for a discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, subject to applicable plans.
Tech Stack
COBOLIBM DB2
Categories
About Cognizant
Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.