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Mainframe - COBOL DB2 - Technical Lead

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India , Chennai

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Job Description:

Technical Lead role responsible for application development and support, incident management, and problem resolution in a Mainframe environment.

Job Responsibility:

  • Responsible for coding, unit testing, application development/support, bug fixing and deliver tasks assigned as per predefined timelines and quality standards
  • Work on change requests from business
  • The resolution and recovery of assigned Incidents
  • Analyzes incidents to identify service restoration actions to be taken
  • Incident investigation and diagnosis of all priority type
  • Assists with classification and prioritization of incidents
  • Detection of possible Problems and the creating a problem records
  • Investigates assigned problems through to resolution or error identification
  • Handle ad-hoc requests for Service status or one-time information retrieval/reports
  • Gather service data as needed for reporting and communications
  • Analyzing the process and suggesting improvements
  • Keeping affected business partners informed about progress
  • Participate in implementation activities and provide post implementation support
  • Contribute towards updating knowledge assets
  • Document all the learning’s from the project
  • Adhere to the Agile Ways of Working

Requirements:

  • Experience: 5 years to 8 years
  • Primary Skill Set: Cobol, DB2, JCL and VSAM
  • B.E / B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech / MCA / BCA
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
  • Should be willing to work in Development/support in UK/India shift

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 06, 2026

Work Type:
Hybrid work
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