Our banking client is seeking a Mainframe Developer (6+ years) to develop and maintain customer risk assessment applications using COBOL, JCL, and DB2

Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto – 2 days/week – Monday, Wednesday

Subject to change: 3–4 days onsite may be required based on business needs

Contract Duration: 6 months (Strong possibility of extension – up to tenure)

Schedule Hours: 8:30am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Reason: Additional Workload

Story Behind the Need

Project: Need help for JU Mainframe KTLO and Projects - This position supports the development of a recent initiative focused on customer collections and credit increase/decrease, specifically credit risk assessment. Ongoing projects – maintenance activities. Backe-end role. Working with HM, Director and another Developer – so a 5 member team including this CW.

Typical Day in Role:

• Develop and maintain applications using COBOL, JCL on mainframe systems

• Perform unit testing of COBOL/DB2 modules

• Support QA Testing (QAT) execution and defect resolution





• Collaborate with team members to deliver enhancements and improvements

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 3+ years of development experience in all these Mainframe technologies: Cobol, JCL, DB2

2) Hands-on experience with version control tools: Endevor (preferred) or similar tools (e.g. Control-M)

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) Experience with scheduling tools such as CA7

2) Financial industry experience is an asset

3) Experience with Jenkins, Github, Bitbucket is an additional advantage

Education:

Bachelors in technical field

Best VS. Average Candidate:

• Solid hands-on experience with mainframe environments (development or maintenance)

• Proven ability to work on COBOL development projects (small or large scale)

• Not engaging for support, this is purely development and maintenance work

Candidate Review & Selection – Interview Process

- 1 round – MS Teams Video Interview – 1 hour – with HM and Business Systems Expert – scenario based technical questions / no coding

📌 Mainframe Developer (Greater Toronto Area)
🏢 RONELLE EXPEDITING
📍 Greater Toronto Area