What are the responsibilities and job description for the Java with Cobol Lead Engineer/Good to have Mainframe position at PeopleNTech LLC?
Job Description Template – Lead Software Engg Role
Overview
The File Transfer Services team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to drive our customer connectivity strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Role
In this key position, you will:
The ideal candidate for this position should possess:
Overview
The File Transfer Services team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to drive our customer connectivity strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Role
In this key position, you will:
- Design and develop high-performing Java and running on Linux. Ability to work on COBOL and mainframe (z/OS) technologies is a plus.
- Ensure scalability, security, and reliability of applications on Linux-based and mainframe-based infrastructures.
- Translate complex technical solutions into business impacts for non-technical audiences.
- Lead mainframe modernization efforts, bridging legacy COBOL, JCL, DB2 systems with Linux and Java applications.
- Guide development teams in Agile best practices, ensuring consistent delivery and continuous improvement.
- Provide technical leadership in software development, system architecture, and best coding practices.
- Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and uphold coding standards.
- Mentor and coach engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Present technical strategies, incident reports, and status updates to executive leadership and senior stakeholders.
- Work closely with DevOps to automate deployments, and with BizOps to troubleshoot and resolve application, performance, and reliability issues.
- Function as Scrum Master, facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming.
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies.
The ideal candidate for this position should possess:
- 8 years of software development experience in Java/Linux with strong shell scripting and Linux command line skills. Experience working on Mainframe technologies is a plus.
- 3 years of experience with file transfer applications like Connect Direct, and file transfer protocols like SFTP, FTPS, etc..
- 3 years of experience writing, optimizing, and automating tasks using Linux shell scripting.
- Hands-on experience with IBM mainframe technologies, including COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, and z/OS.
- Expert in SQL queries and relational databases (DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL)
- Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management.
- Awareness of security standards and RFC's such as X.509 Certificates, SSH Keys, PGP encryption.
- Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD objectives using industry standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, XL Release, others).
- Understands how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing.
- Experience working as technical lead and/or Scrum Master.
- Good knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
