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Mainframe Developer
@ Ancile Canada Inc
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
Ancile Canada Inc is hiring a Mainframe Developer for a full-time permanent hybrid role in Surrey. The developer builds, enhances and maintains business applications on IBM z/OS using COBOL, JCL, DB2 and VSAM, with CICS and MQ integration. The posting states a salary of $90,000 to $98,000 per year, paid time off and extended health benefits, and requires 5+ years of mainframe development experience.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, enhance and maintain z/OS business applications in COBOL, JCL and DB2
- Code, unit test and promote changes through TSO/ISPF and BMC AMI DevX
- Develop CICS online programs, batch jobs and IBM MQ message flows
- Debug production incidents and perform root-cause analysis
- Maintain technical documentation in Confluence
Requirements summary:
- Minimum 5 years of mainframe developer experience
- Degree or college program in a related field
- Proficiency in COBOL, JCL, CICS, MQ and DB2
- Experience with z/OS, VSAM and TSO/ISPF
- Familiarity with BMC tools, JIRA and ServiceNow
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-09
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-10
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | College diploma (required) |
| Fields of study | Computer Science, Information Technology |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off |
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Ancile Canada Inc
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| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1 |
Key Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with business analysts, quality assurance teams, project managers, and stakeholders to analyze user requirements and develop, enhance, and maintain business software applications on the IBM z/OS platform using COBOL, JCL, DB2, and VSAM.
• Code and unit test software application changes in TSO/ISPF, support integration testing across connected systems, and manage version control and release promotion through BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline.
• Develop and integrate customer-facing CICS online programs, JCL batch jobs, and IBM MQ message flows to exchange data with web and enterprise applications, and schedule workflows using BMC Control-M.
• Participate in peer code reviews, validate business logic changes, and track sprint deliverables and application development tasks using JIRA.
• Perform software debugging, root-cause analysis, and defect resolution for production incidents tracked in ServiceNow and QA defects using IBM Fault Analyzer, CICS DTCN, and File-AID to implement code fixes and ensure application stability and operational continuity.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation in Confluence, including functional specifications, data-mapping sheets, deployment checklists, and application support guides.
• Refactor and optimize legacy COBOL application modules by streamlining program logic, eliminating redundant code, improving code efficiency, and optimizing DB2 SQL queries to enhance application maintainability, performance, and processing efficiency.
Skills Required:
• COBOL, JCL, CICS, MQ, TSO/ISPF, File-AID, z/OS, DB2, VSAM, SPUFI, BMC AMI, SCLM, BMC Control-M, JIRA, Confluence and ServiceNow
Job Type
• Full-time, Permanent
Location
• Hybrid (Surrey)
Education Required
• A degree or a college program in a related field is required.
Experience:
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a mainframe developer is required
Salary
• $90,000 to $98,000 per annum
Benefits
• Paid time off
• Extended health
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