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Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Intermediate z/OS Mainframe Developer with at least 5-10 years of professional experience in z/OS application development, maintenance, and modernization. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, coding, testing, and deploying high-quality applications on the z/OS platform.Responsibilities:
  1. Design, develop, and maintain z/OS applications using COBOL, PL/I, and assembly language.
  2. Collaborate with business analysts, architects, and other developers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
  3. Participate in the analysis, design, and implementation of new features and enhancements.
  4. Conduct unit testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of applications.
  5. Contribute to the modernization of legacy applications, leveraging contemporary technologies and methodologies.
  6. Document technical specifications, code, and design decisions.
  7. Stay current with emerging trends and best practices in z/OS application development.
  8. Mentor junior developers and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
  2. Minimum of 2-4 years of professional experience in z/OS application development.
  3. Extensive knowledge of z/OS operating system, JCL, DB2, and IMS.
  4. Proficiency in COBOL, PL/I, and assembly language programming.
  5. Experience with version control systems (e.g., SCM, Git).
  6. Familiarity with DevOps tools (e.g., Jenkins, UCD) and practices.
  7. Strong understanding of software development methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
  8. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  9. Strong communication and interpersonal abilities, with a knack for explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  10. Professional certifications (e.g., IBM Certified Application Developer - z/OS) are a plus.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.


This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.