What is the opportunity?

The Senior Mainframes Developer is a key member of Core Payments team, within the Enterprise Payments and Trade Technology team. This position will be responsible for business, technical, operational support, development and maintenance of critical COBOL DB2 mainframe and JAVA applications.

What will you do?

• Provides technical analysis, design, and consulting services

• Performs code development, documentation and unit testing execution

• Develops plans and estimates for small, medium and large initiatives

• Lead, coordinate and execute support, deployment and maintenance activities

• Manages and prioritizes support issues and production problems to efficiently respond to business and operational needs and performs system monitoring, trouble-shooting and status reporting

• Works closely with business clients to understand priorities and impact, and provides timely and accurate reports to management and end-users

• Participates in infrastructure maintenance (e.g. scheduling, coordinating and performing system maintenance)

• Provides SME advice and development support to Delivery Team and other Enterprise Applications such as testing, walkthroughs, code promotion and problem resolution to assist with the overall success of project delivery

• Documents and assists project team in ensuring change requests and problem tickets noted in production are followed and addressed in a timely manner.

• Maintains a knowledge base of internal processes and Enterprise requirements with regards to implementation activities, compliance, system interfaces and application enhancements

• Occasional overtime working on evenings and weekends may be required for project deadlines/implementations or production problems. Position will be required to carry pager/cell phone on a rotation basis

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Minimum 5 years development and/or hands-on application maintenance experience on large complex Mainframe applications

• Solid understanding of software development best practices and design patterns

• Experience with mainframe language, tools, and utilities - COBOL, JCL, DB2, Endevor, File Manager, Fault Analyzer, ISPF, SQL

• Experience with Operation System/Platform - z/OS, Linux and Windows

• Strong communication skills

• Experience with JIRA/Confluence/Kanban

Nice-to-have

• Experience in Retail Banking applications

• Experience in IMS, Z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition, RESTful API and JSON, MQSeries, WebSphere, ZEKE, Scheduling and DevOps (IBM IDz) tools.

• Experience in Cloud programming languages (Java)

• Experience with Distributed technologies – Java J2EE, Universal Command, RAD

Job Skills

Application Development, Application Integrations, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Detail-Oriented, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Applications

Additional Job Details

180 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOTORONTOCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2025-04-252025-05-30

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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