This hybrid day shift role seeks a seasoned technical lead with twelve to sixteen years of experience in mainframe application development and maintenance using JCL DB2 and Cobol. The role focuses on designing robust solutions guiding complex technical delivery and ensuring high quality systems that support business critical transactions in a cards and payments setting while maintaining strong cross team collaboration and operational stability.
Responsibilities
Lead end to end technical design of mainframe applications using JCL DB2 and Cobol to deliver resilient solutions that align with enterprise architecture and performance expectations.
Drive implementation of complex batch and online processing components that optimize resource usage and ensure timely completion of business critical workloads in a hybrid work model.
Guide detailed analysis of existing Cobol and DB2 programs to identify optimization opportunities that reduce processing time and enhance overall application stability.
Coordinate migration and enhancement efforts for legacy components to modernized patterns while preserving data integrity and minimizing disruption to ongoing operations.
Oversee creation and maintenance of JCL job streams that support reliable scheduling error recovery procedures and capacity planning across day shift operations.
Provide technical direction to project teams by clarifying requirements decomposing work items and ensuring that development tasks follow coding standards and quality practices.
Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to translate functional needs from cards and payments processes into precise technical specifications and data models.
Ensure rigorous testing strategies by defining test scenarios validating results against expected outcomes and supporting defect triage to uphold production reliability.
Manage production support activities by analyzing incidents performing root cause assessments and implementing durable fixes
📌 Mainframe Developer- Payment Domain (Chennai)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Chennai
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