Technical Lead

ROLE 

BAND 

TECH STACK 

EXPERIENCE 

TYPE 

Mainframe Senior Developer 

E2.1 

Mainframe 

8+ Years 

Full-time 

Development & Design 

•  Design and build mainframe components, services and enhancements within the agreed architecture and standards. 

•  Translate user stories and specifications into clean, efficient and testable implementations. 

•  Handle complex technical problems, performance issues and non-trivial defects independently. 

•  Contribute to technical design discussions, estimation and solution options. 

Quality Engineering 

•  Write and maintain unit, integration and regression tests to agreed coverage expectations. 

•  Participate actively in code reviews, providing and acting on constructive feedback. 

•  Apply secure coding practices, effective error handling and appropriate logging. 

Delivery & Support 

•  Deliver committed scope within agreed sprint or release timelines with predictable quality. 

•  Support build, deployment, environment issues and release verification activities. 

•  Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis and implement durable fixes. 

Collaboration 

•  Work closely with leads, architects, QA, business analysts and support teams. 

•  Participate in agile ceremonies, backlog refinement and dependency discussions. 

•  Mentor junior developers through pairing, reviews and knowledge sharing. 

•  Design, develop and support COBOL/CICS/DB2 batch and online components within agreed standards. 

•  Optimize batch windows, DB2 access paths and resource consumption to protect service levels. 

•  Support mainframe modernization, API exposure and integration with distributed and cloud platforms. 

Core Skills 

COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 and z/OS utilities; batch and online program design and optimization. 

Design & Architecture 

Mainframe application architecture, modularization, API enablement and modernization/coexistence patterns. 

Data & Integration 

DB2 and VSAM data design, SQL tuning, file handling, data conversion, integrity and reconciliation. 

Platform & DevOps 

z/OS operations, scheduling, change management, environment promotion and mainframe-to-distributed integration. 

Quality & Operations 

Unit and regression testing, batch cycle validation, performance and MIPS optimization, defect RCA. 

Experience & Qualifications 

•  8+ years of hands-on mainframe development experience in enterprise environments. 

•  Strong track record delivering production-grade components across full delivery cycles. 

•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience. 

•  Relevant platform or cloud certifications advantageous, not mandatory. 

Leadership & Behavioural 

•  Strong ownership of assigned deliverables end to end. 

•  Analytical, detail-oriented approach to problem solving. 

•  Clear written and verbal communication within a delivery team. 

•  Collaborative, dependable and open to feedback. 

Location-Specific Expectations 

•  Work from the Curitiba delivery location with local customer stakeholders and global teams. 

•  Participate in on-site and virtual workshops, design reviews and governance forums. 

•  Effective communication in a multi-country model, with overlap into European and Indian working hours. 

Key Deliverables & Success Measures 

•  Working, tested and reviewed code delivered to agreed scope and timelines. 

•  Low defect leakage into system, UAT and production environments. 

•  Timely resolution of assigned defects and production incidents. 

•  Accurate technical documentation and effective knowledge transfer. 

•  Consistent adherence to coding, security and testing standards.