Senior Application Analyst

Job description

ABOUT THE COMPANY

JOB SUMMARY

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution design for complex enhancements, regulatory initiatives, integrations, production improvements, and modernization efforts across enterprise mainframe applications.
• Develop solution architectures, high-level and detailed technical designs, interface specifications, data flows, implementation approaches, and deployment strategies.
• Assess business and client requirements, clarify technical constraints, identify dependencies and risks, and recommend practical solution options and tradeoffs.
• Serve as a senior technical point of contact in client meetings, design reviews, requirements workshops, status discussions, and issue-resolution sessions.
• Present technical concepts, architecture decisions, delivery risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership to mainframe developers and cross-functional delivery teams, including work decomposition, design guidance, code reviews, mentoring, and coordination of complex implementation activities.
• Establish and promote architecture, development, documentation, security, testing, performance, and support standards across the application portfolio.
• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, IMS, and related IBM z/OS technologies.
• Guide the design of batch and online processing, data access, scheduling, interfaces, APIs, file exchanges, and integrations with distributed or cloud-hosted systems.
• Partner with enterprise architects, business analysts, QA, infrastructure, security, release management, and operations teams to ensure complete and supportable solutions.
• Lead technical impact analysis, estimation, design validation, proof-of-concept activities, root-cause analysis, and resolution of high-priority production issues.
• Ensure solutions comply with established SDLC, change management, release management, security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Drive application modernization through API enablement, modularization, automation, DevOps adoption, cloud integration, technical-debt reduction, and improved system documentation.
• Apply approved AI-enabled tools to accelerate code understanding, documentation, impact analysis, test creation, development, and modernization while ensuring human review, quality, security, and traceability.
• Build reusable patterns, reference designs, decision records, and knowledge-transfer materials that reduce dependency on individual subject-matter experts and improve delivery consistency.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive mainframe application development experience, including leadership of complex technical solutions or architecture responsibilities.
• Deep proficiency in COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, and IBM z/OS application environments.
• Strong experience with CICS and/or IMS and with both batch and online transaction-processing applications.
• Demonstrated experience creating solution architectures, technical designs, integration designs, data flows, and implementation strategies for enterprise systems.
• Experience leading technical delivery teams, mentoring developers, conducting design and code reviews, and coordinating work across multiple disciplines.
• Demonstrated client-facing experience, including requirements clarification, solution presentations, technical recommendations, risk communication, and issue resolution.
• Experience integrating mainframe applications with APIs, web or distributed platforms, third-party services, file-transfer solutions, or cloud technologies.
• Strong understanding of secure software engineering, testing, performance, production support, operational readiness, and release-management practices.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and leading root-cause analysis across multiple applications and technologies.
• Familiarity with mainframe development, debugging, source-control, and change-management tools such as Expeditor, Intertest, Endevor, or Changeman.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound technical judgment, and the ability to influence decisions without relying on direct authority.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and provide leadership with minimal ramp-up.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial services, government, lending, or other regulated-industry experience.
• Experience supporting U.S. federal government programs or large-scale mission-critical platforms.
• Experience defining modernization roadmaps for legacy applications, including application decomposition, API enablement, cloud integration, or migration planning.
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD practices involving GitLab, GitHub, Zowe, z/OSMF, Jenkins, or comparable toolsets.
• Experience using AI tools to support code generation, code comprehension, documentation, test creation, impact analysis, and developer productivity.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled and modernization tools such as GitHub Copilot, IBM watsonx, and Zowe.
• Experience working across globally distributed teams and multiple delivery partners.
• Architecture, cloud, Agile, SAFe, ITIL, or related professional certifications.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. citizen security clearance, if required for client or federal program support.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience and scope of the role
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401(k), and paid time off (PTO)
• Flexibility for remote work

• Qualifications: Bachelor's or higher
• Range of Year Experience-Min Year: 12
• Range of Year Experience-Max Year: 15