**This role is not open to C2C candidates; only W2 eligible applicants

**This role is not open to candidates on H1 visas

**This role is ONSITE; you MUST be currently living in Utah, or willing to relocate at your own expense within 1 week of offer

This is a contract with a great organization. As a contractor for Smith Johnson, you are eligible for medical, dental, life, disability. Smith Johnson pays for 70% of your medical and dental and 100% of life and disability. The contract is also eligible for PTO/holiday accrued monthly. You are also eligible for a 3% retirement matching plan. Smith Johnson believes in taking care of our contractors.

Our client is seeking a talented, driven, and experienced Senior Mainframe Developer with a passion for solving business problems to join our team in Salt Lake City, UT.

This role will be performed at the client site in Salt Lake City, UT! You’ll be part of a team supporting our client's banking system modernization effort!

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Management and business partners to iteratively build robust and scalable solutions

• Research, analyze and recommend technology features, functionality, and development solutions

• Document code, perform code reviews, define and participate in secure coding best practices

• Create technical documentation and user manuals to support mainframe applications

• Create documentation of operational tasks, procedures and automated processes

• Work on application support and maintenance for multiple applications

• Provide on-call support

• Coordinate with offshore team

• Serve as technical SME of supported applications for multiple projects and initiatives

• Be a technical contact for application related questions, user ticket resolution, audit responses, manage releases

• Provide cross-training to team members and provide mainframe expertise guidance to junior developers

• Debug and resolve technical issues

• Expected to learn quickly on the job about the systems and deliver time critical enhancements in a fast-paced team environment

• Attend meetings and provide updates

• Fix faults and restore the operability or carry out suitable workaround measures

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (i.e.: Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a similar major with extensive computer-based or technical content)

• Primary skillset: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM

• Secondary skillset: Assembler, EZtrieve

• Experience in software maintenance and support in mainframe languages (COBOL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM)

• Technical knowledge based on experience and skilled in (COBOL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM)

• Experience working with large teams supporting multiple applications required

• Experience working and coordinating with Offshore teams required

• Experience with EZtrieve and Endevor is preferred

• Experience with mainframe debugging tool

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

• Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

• Demonstrated skills in exercising initiative, good judgment, and making sound technical decisions

• Ability to propose and assess the quality of solutions for moderate to complex solutions

For additional job openings see our website:

www.smithjohnson.com