Mainframe COBOL Engineer

We welcome individual candidate and Corp-to-Corp (CTC) resume submissions.

6-month contract to hire

Hybrid work arrangement – Evansville, IN

We are seeking a Mainframe COBOL Engineer to assist our direct client located in Evansville, IN. This is a 6-month contract-to-hire position. Sponsorship is available if offered employment. This is a hybrid work arrangement with remote and onsite work in Evansville, IN. This position will be in a fast-paced environment working with batch and real-time systems and coordinating changes with other IT development teams.

Responsibilities

• Scope and design solutions from technical requirements and overall business need.

• Deliver QA and testing support as needed and troubleshoot problems and implement reliable change.

• Participate in and conduct development activities with offshore resources.

• Conduct technical walkthroughs with all stakeholders.

• Support system testing activities and resolve any technical issues.

• Provide emergency bug fixes to production issues and resolve client research requests.

• Provide production support by fixing batch process abnormal ends within strict SLAs.

• Handle change requests for implementing changes and owning them until closure.

• Meet with project managers to provide daily or weekly project statuses.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.

• 6+ years of software development engineering experience.

• Working knowledge in an IBM Mainframe environment.

• Proficient with COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, and working with IBM Mainframe zOS toolsets.

• Experience in technical design writing and documentation.

• Proficient with usage of MS Office Outlook, Word, Excel, SharePoint.

• Ability to problem solve, code, test, and deploy application fixes in a fast-paced SLA driven environment.

• Code and test high priority and critical changes utilizing COBOL, JCL, DB2, and VSAM.

We look forward to receiving your resume in PDF format.