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Mainframe DB2 Developer.
@ Astra North Infoteck Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Astra North Infoteck Inc. is hiring a contract Mainframe DB2 Developer in Toronto for 6 to 12 months, hybrid with 4 days a week in the office. The role covers mainframe application development and support, batch job scheduling, and translating business needs into technical solutions. The posting asks for 8 to 10 years of experience.
Responsibilities:
- Translate business needs into technical requirements
- Analyze usage patterns and set schedules for system utilization
- Coordinate coding, testing, implementation and documentation
- Provide cost and time estimates for work packages
- Act as subject matter expert on technical solutions
Requirements summary:
- 10+ years hands-on mainframe experience
- 5+ years mainframe application support
- Proficiency in z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMS, VSAM
- Batch scheduling with CA7 or BMC Control-M
- Experience with GitHub, Jenkins or UCD
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-27
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-11
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-18
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 8+ years |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Job Description: Mainframe Developer
Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid (4 Days WFO)
Duration: 6-12 months
Experience Required: 8-10 yrs
Primary Skill: Mainframe DB2 - Application Development
Role Descriptions: What will you do?
- Assisting in translating business needs into technical requirements.
- Performing all required tasks to ensure technical availability.
- Assisting in interpreting operational results.
- Analyzing usage patterns and establishing schedules and procedures for maximum utilization of the system.
- Maintaining reports and reporting tools for traffic management, service centers and enterprise partners.
- Interacting with other organizations to develop solutions for anticipated technical needs in support of business objectives.
- Analyze, define and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, interface with other systems, internal and external checks, controls, and outputs
- Provide cost and time estimates for assigned work packages to support the development of time tables and project plans
- Coordinate coding, testing, implementation, integration and documentation of solution
- Act as a technical solution provider (subject matter expert) to provide solutions that potentially impact other dependent projects and applications
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Mainframe expert with 10+ years hand-on experience
- 5+ years on mainframe application support experience
- zOS
- MVS/TSO/ISPF
- JCL
- IMS /DB/DC
- CICS
- DB2
- VSAM
- COBOL
- ZEKE
- File-AID or File-Manager
- IDZ
- GitHub/Jenkins/UCD
- Scheduling Mainframe batch jobs through schedulers like CA7 and BMC Control-M.
- Experience on SoapUI
Nice-to-have
- Experience on MQ
- WAS
- SPUFI
- XPEDITER
- REXX/CLIST
- DevOps
- OnDemand
- Server experience with 3+ years on Windows server
- Experience with DVM
- WinSCP
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