Mainframe Application Developer

$101,970 - $203,940/Yr

CVS Health - Hartford, CT

Full-time - Mid Level

Hartford, CT

Health and Personal Care Retailers

About the position

As a Mainframe Developer at CVS Health, you will be responsible for the analysis, design, development, and deployment of critical integrated mainframe applications and systems for our claims ecosystem. This role is essential for ensuring the delivery of business value and maintaining the stability, performance, and scalability of production applications. You will work in an Agile scrum team environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements, develop technical specifications, and implement solutions that meet business needs. Expertise in mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, and DB2 is crucial for the efficient operation of our mainframe systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop mainframe applications according to customer specifications and requirements.
• Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements.
• Work as part of a team to ensure solutions are designed to fully function in an integrated application suite.
• Design and develop solutions that enable applications to perform optimally and scale to meet future business needs.
• Perform thorough unit and integration testing, and support QA testing and deployment activities.
• Maintain and enhance existing mainframe systems; work with other developers to create high-performance, scalable applications.
• Monitor systems to ensure that they are functioning properly.
• Analyze and optimize applications, troubleshooting and resolving issues in mainframe applications.
• Create and maintain documentation related to mainframe applications.
• Interact closely with project managers, business analysts, and other developers, both locally and remote.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and advancements in mainframe.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with mainframe development and support, utilizing technologies such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, SQL, MQ, Xpeditor, Endevor or similar source control application.
• Systems analysis and software design principles.
• Experience with Agile delivery methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• 1+ years of experience with large-scale offshore vendor support arrangements.

Nice-to-haves

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage changing priorities and multitask effectively.
• Ability to work in a team environment to deliver projects.
• Self-starter who takes initiative with challenging situations.
• Experience with mainframe modernization/transformation initiatives.
• Healthcare experience in areas such as plan setup/enrollment, claim adjudication, or member eligibility/enrollment.

Benefits

• Store discount
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid holidays
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance