Senior Software Engineer- Mainframe

Are you an experienced Senior Software Engineer
- Mainframe with a desire to excel? If so, then Talent Software Services may have the job for you Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer
- Mainframe to work remotely in their company. Responsibilities and Duties: This senior-level position is an integral member of an agile software engineering team responsible for designing, developing, enhancing, and supporting business-critical enterprise applications. The engineer will provide deep mainframe expertise for high-volume, file-based financial processing and will participate throughout the software delivery lifecycle, from requirements and technical design through development, testing, implementation, and production support.
* Software Design and Engineering: Create engineering specifications and technical designs for mainframe applications, batch programs, interfaces, data-transformation processes, and supporting components.
* Mainframe Development: Design, develop, test, implement, and maintain senior-level mainframe solutions using COBOL, JCL, z/OS tools, batch-processing patterns, and flat-file interfaces.
* Financial Data Processing: Maintain and enhance rules that standardize source data, map financial attributes and General Ledger accounts, validate required information, and transform transactions into client-ready financial feeds.
* Interface and Data Support: Develop and support inbound and outbound file processing, interface extracts and passbacks, translation and validation tables, control-total files, journal-entry outputs, and detail and summary files.
* Production Support: Diagnose and resolve production abends, failed batch jobs, file-processing errors, data discrepancies, mapping defects, balancing failures, and reconciliation issues. Perform safe restart and recovery activities and communicate impacts and status promptly.
* Controls and Auditability: Preserve data integrity and financial-control requirements through duplicate-file checks, record and control-file balancing, traceability, reconciliation, and evidence needed for audit or compliance reviews.
* Integration Delivery: Partner with Finance, Accounting, Business Systems Analysts, data and integration teams, operations, architecture, testing, and product teams to deliver new interfaces, financial feeds, platform changes, and client or line-of-business onboarding.
* Software Quality: Write code that adheres to coding standards, perform code reviews, develop unit and integration tests, and follow source-control, build, deployment, testing, and change-management practices.
* Agile Execution: Participate in scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, story creation, definition of done, acceptance criteria, task creation, status updates, and final execution of software changes.
* Technical Leadership: Evaluate technical alternatives, identify feasibility and operational trade-offs, safeguard functionality and performance, communicate blockers, document support procedures, and mentor associate and intermediate engineers.
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Responsibilities:
Participate in scheduled production support and after-hours implementation or incident coverage as required. Perform other duties as assigned or requested. Required

Qualifications:
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Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer and Information Science, or a closely related field, or equivalent relevant experience consistent with company hiring standards.
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Experience:
At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, deploying, and supporting scalable, highly available, or business-critical systems.
* Senior-level knowledge of mainframe systems, demonstrated through substantial hands-on experience with z/OS application development, production batch operations, troubleshooting, implementation, and support.
* Strong hands-on experience developing and maintaining COBOL programs and JCL, including job streams, file-based processing, dependency handling, abnormal-end diagnosis, restart and recovery, and production implementation.
* Experience supporting large-scale batch applications that process financial, accounting, claims, billing, payment, or similarly controlled enterprise data.
* Experience with algorithm and data-structure fundamentals, system design, technical feasibility evaluation, design patterns, and maintainable application architecture.
* Experience translating business requirements, technical specifications, prototypes, interface definitions, or user stories into working software solutions. Skills/Competencies:
* Advanced proficiency in COBOL and JCL for enterprise mainframe batch development and support.
* Strong understanding of z/OS, mainframe datasets, flat-file layouts, record processing, job dependencies, control files, batch scheduling, operational monitoring, and failure recovery.
* Working knowledge of SQL and relational data concepts. Experience with Oracl