Lead Mainframe Systems Programmer

🕒 October 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Alithya

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Healthcare • Manufacturing

Alithya is a global digital transformation and IT consulting firm that provides strategic consulting, enterprise transformation, and business enablement services. It helps organizations modernize ERP, supply chain, CRM, HCM, and enterprise performance systems, and offers cloud, data & analytics, AI/ML, managed services, quality engineering, and change management to drive adoption and ROI. Alithya works with major technology partners (Microsoft, Oracle, AWS, Salesforce) and focuses on practical, tailored solutions for mid-to-large enterprises across industries such as financial services, healthcare, government, telecommunications, transportation, and manufacturing.

📋 Description

• Write and maintain HLASM code that runs as part of the runtime and subsystem environment • Build and package modules, and analyze load modules • Work with access methods (VSAM, QSAM) and Language Environment at the control-block level • Develop and install subsystem exits (CICS, Db2, IMS, or MQ) • Use JCL and REXX to automate build, installation, and verification steps • Troubleshoot dumps and abends, and demonstrate that a change is behavior-neutral before it ships

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on z/OS experience, with significant time spent below the application layer • Strong HLASM skills (not substitutable by COBOL or PL/I experience) • Fluency with the binder and linkage editor • Working knowledge of Language Environment internals, VSAM/QSAM control blocks, and the z/OS authorization model (APF, authorized concatenations) • Comfortable with JCL and REXX; dump and abend analysis (IPCS, SLIP, GTF, or component trace) • Experience with Db2 language interface internals, CICS global user exits and thread safety, IMS DL/I or MQ internals, SMP/E, z/OS trace or diagnostic tooling, or IBM Z certifications • English: Proficient • Bachelor’s degree

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work options • Unlimited vacation plan • 24/7 virtual health care • Comprehensive wellness portal with tools and resources for physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being • Access to thousands of online courses and certifications • Exclusive leadership programs • External training reimbursement program • Employee share purchase plan with matching contributions