Tata Consultancy Services

Mainframe Developer

Tata Consultancy Services$110K — $115K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in mainframe development and integration.
  • Strong expertise in COBOL for core banking systems.
  • Skilled in JCL usage and optimization.
  • Proficient in designing and troubleshooting CICS applications.
  • Experience in data modeling and SQL tuning.
  • Knowledge of secure coding and audit readiness.
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies and CI/CD platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver high-quality mainframe solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
  • Design and develop story deliverables for mainframe in each sprint.
  • Maintain focus on minimizing technical debt and meeting acceptance criteria.
  • Drive best engineering practices through team collaboration and peer reviews.
  • Participate actively in team ceremonies, planning, and estimation.
  • Timely identification and escalation of risks to project stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Discretionary annual incentives.
  • Comprehensive medical coverage including dental and vision.
  • Support for family with maternal and parental leaves.
  • Diverse insurance options including auto, home, and identity theft protection.
  • Reimbursements for commuter costs and professional certifications.
  • Generous paid time off including vacation and sick leave.
  • Legal assistance and financial planning support including 401K and student loan refinancing.
Full Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
• 8+ years of experience in Mainframe based development and integration
• Strong hands-on with COBOL for core banking systems (deposits, loans, GL, payments), including file/DB processing, copybooks, and error handling.
• Expert in crafting/optimizing JCL, cataloged procedures, restart/recovery, conditional steps, and data manipulation with SORT utilities.
• Designing and troubleshooting high-throughput CICS applications (comm areas, TSQs/TDQs, pseudo-conversational design, MAPs/BMS, threadsafe considerations).
• Data modeling, SQL tuning (EXPLAIN, indexing strategies), concurrency control, packages/binds, stored procedures, and plans for EOD/EOM heavy workloads.
• Access models, dataset/database protection, least-privilege, MFA integration, and audit readiness for regulators.
• Batch Scheduling (Control-M/CA-7) Building complex job streams, calendars, dependencies, SLAs, reruns/restarts, critical path monitoring for narrow batch windows.
• MQ design (queues, channels), message persistence, dead-letter handling; understanding ISO 8583 (cards) and ISO 20022 (payments).
• Secure coding, logging/audit trails, PII handling, encryption/tokenization, retention rules, and evidencing controls.
• Reading SMF/RMF, CICS/DB2 performance dashboards, detecting contention, tuning CPU/IO, and capacity planning.
• File Transfer & Data Exchange Connect:Direct (NDM), SFTP/FTPS, encryption (PGP), large file handling, file integrity checks, and partner data onboarding.
• Exposing mainframe assets through z/OS Connect EE (REST/JSON), service wrappers, contract-first design, and hybrid integration patterns.
• Impact analysis, segregation of duties, change advisory records, incident/problem management, and clean cutover/backout practices.
• Good experience with ETL processing • Candidate should have good analytical & problem solving skills.
• Candidate should be able to fully debug their own code as well as others, troubleshoot defects and have a human centric approach to the user experience.
• Experience working in Agile teams
• Demonstrates best in class design and solution patterns
• Experience with Horizon CI/CD platforms (Jira, bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, etc.,)

Roles & Responsibilities
• Building the solution right
• Design develops and is accountable for mainframe based story delivery within each sprint
• Applies enterprise standards and design patterns for solution design , coding and quality
• Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt
• Participates with team members to drive best practices (peer reviews and other engineering practices)
• Attends team ceremonies and contributes to planning, estimation and design sessions
• Vocalizes risks in timely manner and escalates appropriately

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

Discretionary Annual Incentive.

Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.

Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.

Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.

Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.

Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.

Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Salary Range: $110,000 - $115,000 a year

About Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is a subsidiary of Tata Group and operates in 149 locations across 46 countries. TCS is the largest Indian company by market capitalization and is ranked 11th on the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's biggest public companies. TCS is also the second-largest IT services company in the world by revenue and the largest employer of women in India. The company provides services in areas including IT, consulting, and business solutions.
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