Sr. Mainframe Developer - 57927

Duration: 05/25/2026 to 05/21/2027 - 1 year

Extension possible: yes, based on performance

Conversion Possible: Maybe

Work Location: Hybrid - 2 days on site - 3 days working from home; Toronto, Ontario

Scope of Project: day to day operational support and project based

Team Size/Culture: 7 members

Selling Points of Position (CVP): supportive team environment, great culture

Job Description:

Merchant Solution Product Group is seeking a talented Mainframe Software Engineer II to support mission-critical application VMS. This role offers the opportunity to work on scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that underpin the Bank's customer data and regulatory compliance platforms.

We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer II with expertise in Host/Mainframe technology. This ideal candidate will have strong development skills and experience working in Host environments. You will play a key role designing, developing, and optimizing VMS application while ensuring scalability, security, and performance.

Successful candidate might be required to be on on-call rotation.

Key Accountabilities

• Perform moderately complex to complex technical tasks independently, with appropriate guidance for highly complex or high-risk changes.
• Develop program specifications; design, code, integrate, test, debug, and implement mainframe solutions in accordance with business, technical, and control requirements.
• Support business inquiries and operational needs through small enhancements, maintenance, and break/fix implementations, including source code, JCL, batch cycle, and related configuration changes; contribute to peer code reviews as required.
• Participate in quality management reviews, including reviews of designs, prototypes, technical specifications, and requirements artifacts, to ensure completeness, quality, and alignment with business needs.
• Develop and maintain high-quality code in compliance with enterprise standards, support unit testing, system testing, integration testing, production implementation, and post-deployment stabilization activities.
• Provide technical support during incident management by analyzing production incidents and outages, performing impact assessments, supporting recovery activities, and communicating clearly with technology and business stakeholders throughout resolution.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of processes that help prevent recurring issues, and support root cause analysis, problem determination, and timely incident resolution using appropriate quality and control measures.
• Adhere to enterprise engineering frameworks, software development methodologies, release processes, and control standards applicable to mainframe development and delivery.
• Actively identify and support continuous improvement, automation, and modernization opportunities across mainframe engineering practices, including code quality, testing, deployment, and operational efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce operational costs, and enhance stakeholder experience through practical, well-reasoned technical recommendations and solutions.
• Support and implement remediation actions to address performance, risk, audit, compliance, and governance issues within the application and production environment.
• Keep team members and stakeholders informed of project status, delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and other relevant day-to-day updates.
• Familiarity with enterprise source control, change management, release management, and deployment practices in regulated environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, infrastructure, operations, and business teams.

MUST-HAVE Hard Skills:

• COBOL
• JCL/CA7 Scheduling tool/Endevor
• VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method)
• SAS
• CICS (Customer Information Control System)
• Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow (Incidents Management)
• Attentive to detail
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organized, self-motivated and customer oriented
• Positive attitude, and can work independently or in groups
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies

NICE-TO-HAVE

1.) Experience in financial services/Card Payment Network industries