Title: Mainframe Developer V
Duration: 12 months (possibility of extension)
Location:  160 Front Street West Corporate, Toronto, Ontario (Hybrid 2 days onsite)
 
Job Description:
Client’s 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 Client’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 applications 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.

 
Education:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

 
Must-Have Qualifications

• Strong engineering background delivering enterprise applications, including mainframe solutions, batch processing systems, online transaction processing, and service-enabled integrations.
• Undergraduate degree, Postgraduate degree, or Technical Certificate
• Strong academic background (e.g., computer science, engineering)
• 10+ years of application development experience, including end-to-end design, development, testing, implementation, and production support.
• Hands-on experience in application design and development, such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, SAS and batch processing frameworks.
• SAS, CA-7, IBM OS/390, Z/OS, TSO, ISPF, File-aid, TIBCO, NDM, FTP, Endevor, Test Sets, Service Now.
• Strong knowledge of the relevant business domain, engineering frameworks, mainframe platforms, development tools, processes, and procedures used within the organization.

 
Preferred:

• Experience in financial services/Card Payment Network industries

 
  
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 57.00/hr.