# Sr Staff Software Engineer- Mainframe - Onsite

Overview This role is critical for accelerating end-end life insurance processing and the company's industry leading position by bringing incremental software changes to market. The ideal candidate is an industry-proven, hands-on, well-rounded senior leader of software engineering by trade specializing in COBOL application development and mainframe modernization to run end-end life insurance policy administration. Responsibilities What you will do: Owns 100% of life insurance policy adinistration mainframe-based application architecture and the blueprint for its continuous adaptation across the entire company. Provides technical oversight for all 15-20 software engineers implementing blueprinted changes. Ensures software engineering team technical compliance with design patterns and overall software standards. Provides technical leadership and hands on development direction for all custom legacy COBOL application development for all of Gerber Life policy administration applications (product config, billing, collections, policy servicing, claims) and feeds to various downstream systems (workflow, document generation and fulfillment, general ledger, reinsurance, etc.) that enable end

- **Id**: 990165
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/western-southern-sr-staff-software-engineer-mainframe-onsite>
- **Role**: Enterprise Apps
- **Role family**: Enterprise Apps
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Fremont, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-17T02:02:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T03:06:29Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 58
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6378
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Asset Management & Funds

## Company

- **Id**: 1881179
- **Name**: Western & Southern
- **Domain**: westernsouthern.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/western-southern>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 18
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 112000
- **Max usd**: 218000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 282

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Angular** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CICS** — Optional: no
- **COBOL** — Optional: no
- **Db2** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **IBM MQ** — Optional: no
- **IMS** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **JCL** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **JQuery** — Optional: no
- **Maven** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **VSAM** — Optional: no
- **Waterfall** — Optional: no
- **z/OS Connect** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 58

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Management years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-17T02:02:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.696
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 56
- **Expected fill days**: 18
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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