Responsibilities
- Lead enhancement and development of mission-critical mainframe applications using COBOL and related technologies.
- Design, troubleshoot, and improve batch processing, CICS online applications, DB2 programs, JCL jobs, and complex batch workflows.
- Coordinate production releases, deployments, post-release validation, scheduling, and job automation.
- Investigate production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive solutions.
- Provide technical direction, mentoring, code reviews, estimates, and development guidance to mainframe developers.
- Collaborate with architects, business analysts, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, production support, and customer support teams.
- Drive application modernization, automation, development-process improvements, and adherence to coding and security standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of mainframe development experience.
- 3+ years of experience leading technical teams or serving as a technical lead.
- Hands-on experience with COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, and VSAM.
- Experience with batch processing, online transaction processing, batch scheduling, production support, incident management, release management, change management, and software development processes.
- Experience with scheduling tools such as Control-M, CA-7, or equivalent, and source-code management and deployment tools such as Endevor or Changeman.
- Knowledge of debugging, performance tuning, file transfer, utilities, mainframe operations, and IBM z/OS.
- Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and partners and supporting customer support teams with critical issues.
- Preferred experience in financial services, credit, or data-driven enterprise environments; modern mainframe DevOps practices; distributed-system and API integration; and related IBM z/OS tools.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement is indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
- Family well-being benefits, enhanced medical benefits, paid time off, and support for work-life balance, health, safety, and wellbeing.
- Development, wellness, reward and recognition, volunteering, collaboration, and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
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About Experian
Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, deliver digital marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to realise their financial goals and help them to save time and money. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agrifinance, insurance, and many more industry segments. We invest in talented people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data and innovate. As a FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 22,500 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.