# Senior Mainframe Developer

We are seeking a Senior Mainframe Developer with 10+ years of experience to lead legacy application analysis, Business Rules Extraction (BRE), and Mainframe-to-Databricks modernization initiatives within the Healthcare domain. In this role, you will serve as the primary onshore technical lead-partnering directly with client stakeholders, guiding offshore engineering teams, and leveraging AI tools like Claude to extract complex legacy business rules and validate functional equivalence across modernized cloud data platforms. In this role, you will Analyse legacy Mainframe applications and extract existing business rules for BRE creation and modernization. Coordinate directly with onshore customers and stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify business logic, and provide technical solutions. Drive discussions on legacy application analysis, rule mapping, Databricks integration and modernization approach. Work closely with offshore development teams, provide technical guidance and track deliverables. Own functional validation, defect resolution, reconciliation, and end-to-end delivery to ensure business equivalence between legacy and modernized application Work model: We strive to p

- **Id**: 4300437
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cognizant-senior-mainframe-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**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Halifax, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T16:11:35Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T02:52:44Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3107
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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**: 200
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.455
- **Repost share**: 0.06
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 24
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 90000
- **Max**: 113000
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 79227

## Technologies

- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **COBOL** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Db2** — Optional: no
- **JCL** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — 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**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T02:52:44Z

## 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**: 2026-11-14T04:37:41Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 79227
- **Is top pay**: no

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