Required Technical Skills:
- Hands-on experience in:
- COBOL
- JCL
- DB2
- CICS
- VSAM
- Experience with:
- Batch processing development
- Online transaction processing
- Batch scheduling and job automation
- Production support and incident management
- Experience with scheduling tools such as:
- Control-M
- Experience with:
- Release management processes
- Change management
- SDLC
- Agile development methodologies
- Experience with source code management and deployment tools such as Endevor, Changeman, or equivalent.
- Knowledge of debugging and performance tuning for mainframe applications.
- Familiarity with file transfer, utilities, and mainframe operations.
Leadership Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of mainframe developers by providing technical direction and guidance.
- Manage technical solution development estimates.
- Ensure delivery of projects with high quality.
- Mentor junior and mid-level developers.
- Coordinate with teams to manage dependencies and deliverables.
- Improve adherence to development standards.
Required Qualifications:
- 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 being a technical lead.
- Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners.
- Experience providing engineering support to customer support team to resolve any critical customer issues.
Good to have:
- Experience working in financial services, credit, or data-driven enterprise environments.
- Exposure to modern DevOps practices for mainframe development.
- Experience integrating mainframe applications with distributed systems and APIs.
- Knowledge of IBM z/OS ecosystem and related tools.
Competencies:
- Technical leadership with a hands-on approach.
- Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on automation.
This role is ideal for a senior mainframe professional who enjoys balancing hands-on development with technical leadership, ensuring the delivery and ongoing support of business-critical applications within Experian Business Information.
Qualifications
- Cobol developer
- engineering lead