Job Description
Job Purpose
We are looking for a Developer II, Identity and Access Management to design, build, and modernize missioncritical applications on IBM z/OS. You'll own endtoend delivery across batch and online systems, contributing to highavailability services that support core business operations. This role blends handson development with systems analysis, performance tuning, secure coding practices, and DevOps automation in mainframe environments.
Responsibilities
- Design & Development
- Develop and maintain COBOL, PL/I, and Assembler programs for batch (JCL) and online (CICS/IMS) workloads.
- Build and optimize data access using DB2, IMS-DB, VSAM, and MQ.
- Create reusable utilities and automation using REXX, CLIST, and shell scripting where applicable.
- Systems & Performance
- Analyze SMF/DB2/CICS metrics and tune programs, DB2 SQL, VSAM structures, and buffer pools to reduce CPU and elapsed time.
- Improve batch schedules and throughput within defined batch windows; troubleshoot abends (S0C7, S0C4, S806, etc.).
- Operations & DevOps
- Author productionready JCL, procs, PARMs; integrate with schedulers (e.g., CA 7, ControlM, Tivoli).
- Use TSO/ISPF, SDSF, SMP/E, z/OSMF, and modern tooling (Zowe, Git, Jenkins, Rocket or equivalent).
- Participate in CI/CD pipelines for mainframe code, automated unit/functional testing, and code quality gates.
- Security & Compliance
- Implement secure coding practices; remediate findings (static/dynamic scans).
- Collaborate with IAM/security teams on RACF/Top Secret/ACF2 resource protections, dataset access, and SMF auditing.
- Ensure compliance with SOX, PCI, HIPAA, and internal controls; maintain robust change management documentation.
- Analysis & Support
- Partner with business analysts to translate requirements into technical designs; prepare technical specs and ERDs.
- Provide L3 production support, root cause analysis, and incident followup; implement reliable fixes and postmortems.
- Modernization
- Contribute to API enablement, data virtualization, and microservices integration (e.g., z/OS Connect, MQ, Kafka bridges).
- Support code refactoring, re-platforming, and interoperability efforts with distributed/cloud systems
Knowledge And Experience
- Ability to evaluate access management implications
- Knowledge of relevant legal and regulatory requirements
- Knowledge of common access management frameworks
- 5+ years of experience working with Mainframe development
