Mainframe/Cobol Developer

About the role

As our Mainframe Developer, you will be an important member of our insurance product team, responsible for maintaining, upgrading, and supporting the organization’s insurance business. The team has exciting years ahead of them as we transform our insurance application to a cloud-based application and modernize the technology across the board. Auto Club Enterprises is the largest club within the national AAA federation, with nearly 17,000 employees in 24 states helping more than 18 million members. The strength of our organization is our employees. Bringing together and supporting different cultures, backgrounds, personalities, and strengths creates a team capable of delivering legendary, lifetime service to our members. When we embrace our diversity – we win. All of Us! With our national brand recognition, long‑standing reputation since 1900, and constantly growing membership, we are seeking career‑minded, service‑driven professionals to join our team. "Through dedicated employees we proudly deliver legendary service and beneficial products that provide members peace of mind and value.”

Responsibilities

• Make system updates to the Mainframe Insurance application.
• Assist with the conversion of Insurance business from the Mainframe platform to Guidewire P&C Insurance application.
• Help refine system change requirements, attend design sessions, present ideas to groups with diverse roles and skill levels, and exchange ideas with team members.
• Provide application production environment support on a rotational schedule during the day and night.

Requirements

• Experience with COBOL programming in a Z/OS Mainframe environment.
• Ability to analyze programs and understand the current state of the applications.
• Experience with COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, ISPW and other mainframe application development skills.

Qualifications

• Experience working with Agile teams or understanding Agile concepts; participation in daily stand‑up meetings, completing projects/stories during sprints, meeting frequent deployment deadlines.
• Proficiency with mainframe development tools such as Syncsort, Xpediter, SAR, FileAid, and Abend‑Aid.
• Prior experience in the Insurance/Property‑Casualty domain.
• Willingness and desire to learn new skills.

Skills

• COBOL
• DB2
• JCL
• CICS
• ISPW
• Syncsort
• Xpediter
• SAR
• FileAid
• Abend‑Aid

Benefits

• Health coverage for medical, dental, vision
• 401(K) saving plans with company match AND Pension
• Tuition assistance
• Floating holidays and PTO for community volunteer programs
• Paid parental