Work Location:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours:37.5
Line of Business:Technology Solutions
Pay Details:$81,600 - $115,200 CAD
Job Description:Role Summary: The L9 Mainframe Software Engineer II is responsible for producing high-quality functional and technical designs, participating in complex application development, and delivering reliable technology solutions aligned to business, architecture, quality, and security standards. This role requires strong hands-on mainframe development experience, the ability to support design and delivery activities, and a learning mindset to adopt modern engineering practices including Git-based development, AI-assisted engineering tools, and mainframe modernization patterns.
Key Responsibilities- Produce high-quality functional, technical, and user interface designs for applications and systems.
- Participate in complex application and system development, including project planning, estimation, programming, testing, and status updates.
- Translate business, Enterprise Architecture, system performance, and development standards into practical application and system designs.
- Support development of strategic solutions that improve cost effectiveness, delivery efficiency, and stakeholder experience.
- Conduct code reviews to ensure quality, standards compliance, reusability, maintainability, and secure coding practices.
- Support Operational Readiness Reviews, gating activities, and required design or delivery sign-offs.
- Identify application integrity issues, including cross-capability or release-related concerns, and work with teams to resolve them.
- Transform business requirements and technical research into delivery solutions that meet performance and quality goals.
- Perform enhancements, troubleshooting, unit testing, and integration testing as per standards and design specifications.
- Configure and develop custom components in collaboration with analysts, developers, designers, technology partners, and business stakeholders.
- Ensure applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities and follow corporate security practices.
- Proactively recommend development, testing, automation, and tooling improvements that support project objectives.
- Apply and share technical expertise during incident management, including impact assessment, outage analysis, and stakeholder communication.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing and documentation to improve team effectiveness and long-term maintainability.
- Adopt modern engineering practices, including Git-based collaboration, reusable design patterns, and AI-assisted development tools where appropriate.
Job Requirements - Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate.
- 6+ years of mainframe application design, development, and support experience; financial industry experience preferred.
- Strong hands-on mainframe skills across COBOL, JCL, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, IMS DC/DB and/or DB2.
- Experience with source control tools such as Endevor, SCM, Changeman, Git, or GitHub.
- Experience with job scheduling tools such as CA-7, Autosys, and AWF.
- Agile delivery experience with ability to work in iterative delivery models and collaborate across cross-functional teams.
- Experience with ITSM tools including Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow.
- Working knowledge of SDLC practices, secure coding standards, incident management, and production support processes.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze requirements, design technical solutions, complete development activities, and support testing.
- Ability to apply AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar tools to improve development productivity, documentation quality, code understanding, and delivery outcomes.
- Strong learning mindset with willingness to adopt modernization practices, AI tools, collaborative engineering workflows, and new development frameworks.
- Ability to work independently on assigned deliverables while seeking guidance on complex design decisions or broader architecture impacts.
- Good communication skills with ability to explain technical issues, risks, and solution options to technology partners and stakeholders.
Nice to Have - Experience with mainframe utilities such as IDz, ZDT, ADDI, PD Tool, and IMS Explorer for Development.
- General knowledge of MQ and integration patterns.
- Banking industry experience preferred.
- Exposure to mainframe modernization initiatives, API enablement, distributed integration, or platform transformation programs.
- Experience with GitHub Enterprise, branching strategies, pull request-based reviews, and collaborative development practices.
- Familiarity with modern DevOps practices and automation opportunities.
- Exposure to cloud, container, file transfer, or integration technologies such as Azure, Docker, TIBCO, or NDM.
- Interest and adaptability in using AI-assisted engineering practices to support code analysis, documentation, testing, and modernization activities.
Core Technical Skill Areas Category Skills / Tools Mainframe Core COBOL, JCL, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, IMS DC/DB, DB2
Scheduling CA-7, Autosys, AWF
Source Control Endevor, SCM, Changeman, Git, GitHub
Utilities IDz, ZDT, ADDI, PD Tool, IMS Explorer for Development
Delivery / ITSM Agile, SDLC, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow
Modern Engineering Git-based development, code reviews, AI-assisted engineering tools
Modernization Exposure Mainframe modernization, API enablement, integration patterns, MQ
