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Programmer Analyst Advisory(Mainframe Developer)

Scotiabank
Ontario, CAN
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
Mainframe application developmentCOBOLJCLDB2IMS DBVSAM

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Role overview

The Senior Mainframe Developer designs, develops, maintains, and supports commercial lending applications.

The role works with business partners, project teams, and technology stakeholders to deliver solutions for critical lending operations.

The position requires mainframe expertise, banking-process understanding, software lifecycle contributions, and production support.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and implement enhancements to commercial lending systems.
  • Translate business requirements into technical solutions and deliver maintainable, efficient code.
  • Contribute across requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support.
  • Assess impacts and estimate effort for project and production support activities.
  • Support modernization and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Resolve production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive solutions; participate in on-call rotations as required.
  • Support audit, compliance, risk, disaster recovery, resiliency, and business continuity activities.
  • Collaborate on planning, estimation, technical design, documentation, knowledge transfer, and operational readiness.
  • Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to team members.
  • Improve application stability, performance, reliability, and supportability through engineering practices and automation.

Qualifications

  • Degree, diploma, or equivalent education and experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • At least 5 years of mainframe application development experience.
  • At least 3 years of mainframe production support, incident management, and problem management experience.
  • Strong experience with COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, CICS, and Endevor or equivalent source code management tools.
  • Experience with Bitbucket, CloudBees Jenkins, or equivalent source control and CI/CD platforms.
  • Experience with batch processing and online transaction systems and with lending, loan servicing, loan origination, or similar banking applications.
  • Experience integrating mainframe with distributed or cloud applications; experience with REST APIs, MQ, event-based integration, or middleware.
  • Knowledge of financial services regulatory, audit, and security requirements.
  • Attention to detail, prioritization, collaboration, ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.

Additional tools and delivery

  • Experience using IBM ADDI or GitHub Copilot is listed.
  • Experience with Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies is required.

Benefits

  • The posting mentions learning and development opportunities, tuition assistance, and a competitive rewards program with benefits beginning on day one.
  • The employer describes inclusion, accessibility, and community engagement programs.

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