# Senior Mainframe CoolGen Developer

About the role We are looking for an experienced Senior Mainframe CoolGen Developer to design, develop, test, enhance, and support high-volume, reliable enterprise applications built on CA Gen/CoolGen and Mainframe technologies. In this role, you will work with business-critical applications, contribute to technical design and modernization initiatives, resolve complex application and production issues, and collaborate with business, application, infrastructure, and cross-functional teams. In this role, you will: Design, develop, test, enhance, maintain, and support high-volume enterprise applications using CA Gen/CoolGen and Mainframe technologies. Contribute to application design and technical standards for Mainframe and CA Gen solutions. Assess legacy CA Gen applications for maintainability, scalability, performance, and modernization readiness. Support technical design across database, interface, batch, online, and integration components. Perform technical impact analysis, debugging, root-cause analysis, defect resolution, code reviews, and performance tuning. Support batch processing activities, including job scheduling, dependency analysis, job-abend resolution, restart/recov

- **Id**: 4055587
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cognizant-senior-mainframe-coolgen-developer-2>
- **Role**: Enterprise Apps
- **Role family**: Enterprise Apps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pleasanton, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T17:48:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T04:36:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4731
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams, Engineering Services, Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 85
- **Name**: Cognizant
- **Domain**: cognizant.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cognizant>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Cognizant Careers

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 199
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.442
- **Repost share**: 0.06
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 24
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 105000
- **Max**: 120000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 120000

## Technologies

- **CA Gen** — Optional: no
- **CICS** — Optional: no
- **COBOL** — Optional: no
- **Db2** — Optional: no
- **JCL** — Optional: no
- **Rest-Assured** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TSO/ISPF** — Optional: no
- **VSAM** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T04:36:20Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8,264; Filings 12m: 8264

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 24
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 120000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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