Custom Application Architect

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You Are
An experienced Mainframe Developer with a strong background in COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, and VSAM, ideally within Canadian retail banking or retail investments. You bring strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, hands-on mainframe expertise, and experience supporting complex, business-critical applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2, and CICS
• Build and optimize batch processing for account processing, interest calculation, fee assessment, investment transactions, income distributions, and tax slip generation (T3, T5, T4RSP/RIF, NR4)
• Develop online transactions and interfaces for branch, advice, digital, and call-centre channels
• Convert functional specifications into technical designs, and perform impact analysis and code reviews
• Troubleshoot production incidents including abends, data issues, and batch delays; participate in on-call support
• Support integration with distributed systems via MQ, APIs, and z/OS Connect
• Deploy changes using change and release management tools, following SDLC and ITIL processes
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures
• Adhere to security, audit, and regulatory controls, including data privacy and segregation of duties
• This role requires a minimum of 3 days per week of on-site presence in Mississauga.

Here’s What You Need

• Atleast 5–10+ years of hands-on mainframe development experience, with strong exposure to Canadian retail banking and/or retail investments
• You bring strong proficiency in COBOL, JCL, DB2 (including SQL and performance tuning), CICS, and VSAM
• You bring experience working with DFSORT/SYNCSORT, REXX, and enterprise scheduling tools such as CA-7, Control-M, or TWS
• You bring hands-on experience using debugging and data analysis tools such as Xpediter, Abend-AID, File-AID, and Fault Analyzer
• You bring experience developing and maintaining COBOL programs and copybooks in IDz, including use of the z/OS Connect toolkit to map OpenAPI JSON schemas to backend data structures such as COMMAREA and containers
• You bring experience integrating z/OS Connect adapters with CICS, IMS, and Db2 subsystems, and using IDz interactive tools to debug and trace API execution on z/OS
• You should bring experience with source code and release management tools such as Endevor, ChangeMan, or Git-based platforms
• You bring a strong understanding of batch processing windows, SLAs, restart/recovery design, and data reconciliation
• You bring strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related field

Bonus points if:

• You bring experience working with a major Canadian bank, investment dealer, or fund company
• You should bring knowledge of retail investment processing, including mutual fund trades, Fundserv messaging, registered plan contributions and withdrawals, withholding tax, and year-end slips
• You bring exposure to IMS, PL/I, or Assembler
• You should bring experience with mainframe DevOps tools and practices, including Zowe, Jenkins, IBM DBB, and IBM Z Open Development
• You bring familiarity with modernization initiatives, including mainframe-to-cloud integration and API enablement
• You should bring an understanding of OSFI technology and cyber risk expectations (B-13) and third-party risk guidelines (B-10)

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role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.Information on benefits is here.

Role Location: British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick Annual Salary Range: $82,600 to $132,600

Mississauga, Ontario

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