Principal Software Engineer

• →Significant Mainframe software engineering experience.
• →Experience developing enterprise-scale software involving database internals, data replication, CDC, transaction processing, or similar technologies.
• →Proven ability to understand and work within large, mature legacy codebases.
• →Experience reverse engineering software behavior, transaction logs, binary formats, encodings, or proprietary interfaces.
• →Hands-on experience building, compiling, debugging, and testing software across mainframe and distributed platforms.
• →Strong understanding of performance optimization, concurrency, reliability, and data integrity.
• →Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• →Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Expertise in one or more of the following: Db2 for z/OS, Db2 LUW, Datacom, Adabas, or IDMS.
• Strong proficiency in C, C++, or comparable systems programming languages.
• Experience with CDC, replication, recovery, log-reading, or database utility technologies.
• Familiarity with z/OS, JCL, EBCDIC, packed decimal, and related mainframe technologies.
• Experience modernizing mature enterprise software systems.
• Experience with cloud-based or distributed architectures.

<5%minimal travel

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IS, or related technical discipline.  

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