Senior Software Engineer

• Oversee technical aspects of regional EMEA, APA, and LATAM corporate hierarchy and limits applications
• Maintain secure, resilient, and highly available critical systems
• Contribute to modernization of mainframe-based systems toward scalable, cloud-aligned architectures
• Maintain and enhance COBOL/DB2-based applications
• Advance distributed, API-driven, and event-based solutions
• Lead and mentor engineering teams and ensure adherence to team standards
• Ensure accurate, high-quality documentation and engineering deliverables
• Perform data architecture and database management, including prototypes, database structures, and APIs
• Transform logical data architectures into physical data designs
• Provide database administration for databases, data warehouses, and datamarts
• Debug database components and remediate design and performance defects
• Refactor database designs and improve data placement and database reuse
• Ensure data replication, performance, high availability, backup, and recovery meet requirements
• Develop data management, data security, data product, and process strategies and standards
• Lead data assets within an Agile team according to enterprise standards and policies
• Spend approximately 50% of time on database development and testing and the remainder collaborating with partners on product/platform releases
• Collaborate with business, product, architecture, engineering, and delivery teams
• Prioritize sprint features and maintain data requirements based on trends, technologies, defects, and issues
• Design data-tier solutions supporting enterprise platform objectives
• Drive adoption of DBMS features and participate in vendor product development strategy
• Contribute to tool, method, and approach decisions and identify innovative technology opportunities
• Work with product owners on blueprints and annual planning for features affecting multiple platforms and products
• Review own work and lead reviews of colleagues’ work

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years of experience in mainframe application development using COBOL, JCL, CICS, and DB2
• Proven track record of maintaining and enhancing mission-critical enterprise systems
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex legacy applications and identify modernization opportunities
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills
• Growth mindset with a strong desire to expand skills into distributed systems and cloud technologies
• Familiarity with modern programming languages such as Java, Scala, Kotlin (preferred)
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and API or event-driven architectures (preferred)
• Understanding of mainframe modernization strategies, including rehosting, refactoring, or replacement (preferred)
• Experience in financial services or similar large-scale transactional systems (preferred)
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, Git-based source control, and Agile development methodologies (preferred)
• Visa sponsorship may be provided for certain positions depending on business requirements, cost, and applicable laws
• Expert knowledge of XML and schema development/reuse, RDBMS databases, and open source
• Strong knowledge of metadata management and database management
• Deep technical knowledge of DBMS products and ecosystems, including storage formats, access algorithms, administration, replication, high availability, encryption, and data maintenance
• Ability to monitor and tune databases and DBMSs for high performance
• Working knowledge of application planning, analysis, development, testing, configuration, and maintenance tools
• Practical experience with infrastructure technologies including servers, JVMs, and networking concepts
• Ability to participate in Agile delivery methodology
• Knowledge of industry best practices, processes, and standards
• Knowledge of complete vertical platform environments and technical stacks
• Experience with Db2, COBOL, on-premises environments, automation testing, GitHub Actions, GitHub Enterprise Server, and GHEC

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in maintaining and enhancing COBOL/DB2-based applications while leading engineering teams in a cloud-aligned modernization effort. Proficient in data architecture, database management, and Agile methodologies to drive high-quality deliverables and innovative solutions.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• COBOL Application Development
• DB2 Database Management
• Cloud Technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Agile Development Methodologies
• Data Architecture and Design

Hard Skills

• COBOL
• DB2
• JCL
• CICS
• API Development
• Event-Driven Architectures
• XML Schema Development
• RDBMS
• Database Administration
• Data Replication

Soft Skills

• Problem-Solving
• Communication
• Mentoring
• CollaborationGrowth Mindset

Industry Keywords

• Mainframe Modernization
• Financial Services
• Enterprise Systems
• Transactional Systems
• Metadata Management

Tools & Technologies

• Git
• CI/CD Pipelines
• GitHub Actions
• GitHub Enterprise Server
• Infrastructure Technologies