Bridge COBOL expertise with API integration, automation, and DevOps practices across Affinity Life’s mission-critical IBM z/OS applications. This hands-on position centers on modernization.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will evolve enterprise mainframe systems while supporting operational reliability. The work includes COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, API connectivity, automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. You will help connect mainframe applications with distributed systems and guide technical design.

Key Responsibilities:

- Contribute to application modernization and API integration
- Connect mainframe applications with distributed systems
- Lead complex backend and mainframe solution implementation
- Apply automated testing, source control, CI, and CD




- Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews

Requirements:

- Significant software engineering experience in mainframe environments
- Experience with modernization, API integration, or distributed connectivity
- Knowledge of COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, and IBM z/OS
- Experience contributing to technical decisions and solution design
- Familiarity with GitHub, Jenkins, Endevor, Zowe, or IDz beneficial

Use COBOL and up-to-date engineering practices to advance Affinity Life’s mainframe modernization and distributed integration work.

📌 Senior COBOL Modernization Engineer (London)
🏢 Manulife/John Hancock
📍 London