Mainframe Specialist

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Job Summary: Mainframe Specialist to work within the DS Management team, developing and maintaining solutions in COBOL, CICS, and Assembler, ensuring reliability and performance. Key Highlights: 1. Analyze, design, and develop mainframe solutions 2. Evolve and maintain legacy applications and critical transactional services 3. Practice agile engineering with active participation in ceremonies **req79666 \- Mainframe Specialist** **About Bradesco** Bradesco is one of Brazil’s largest financial groups, with a history marked by pioneering spirit and innovation. Through our broadly diversified portfolio of financial products, banking services, and insurance offerings, we contribute to individuals’ aspirations and to the sustainable growth of businesses and society. Join our financial ecosystem and impact the experience of millions of people! At Bradesco, we value diversity in all its forms. Therefore, our job openings are open to all individuals, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other characteristic. Learn more at https://banco.bradesco/html/classic/sobre/index.shtm **Responsibilities and Duties** What is our Department of Systems (DS) team? We enable IT solutions that ensure seamless integration among business-supporting systems, maintaining a structured and technologically up-to-date application architecture while meeting business requirements with high availability and performance. Work model: Hybrid \- 2 days onsite Unit: Osasco **What will your day-to-day look like?** As a Mainframe Specialist, you will work within the DS Management team, performing the following key activities: * Analyze, design, and develop mainframe solutions in COBOL (batch and online), CICS, and Assembler; orchestrate JCL for batch workloads; and integrate with DB2. * Evolve and maintain legacy applications and critical transactional services (e.g., accounts, credit, cards, collections, payments), ensuring reliability, performance, and observability. * Model and optimize DB2 SQL, indexes, and access plans; perform tuning and incident resolution. * Practice agile engineering: actively participate in Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, conduct code reviews, implement automated testing, and apply continuous integration and continuous delivery (where applicable to the mainframe context). * Document solutions, support user acceptance testing and rollouts, and share knowledge with peers. **Requirements and Qualifications** What do you need to have or know? * COBOL (batch and online), JCL, DB2 (SQL, performance), CICS (transactions). * TSO/ISPF, VSAM (KSDS), utilities (IDCAMS, IEBCOPY, SORT, etc.). * Development/diagnostic support tools: File\-AID, Abend\-AID and/or XPEDITER (or equivalents). * Development/diagnostic support tools: File\-AID, Abend\-AID and/or XPEDITER (or equivalents). * Version control and CI/CD tools: ChangeMan and, preferably, Git (GitHub/Bitbucket) applied to mainframe artifacts. It would be a plus if you have: * Prior experience in financial institutions (preferred), especially with mission-critical systems and high regulatory requirements. * Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), backlog grooming, estimation techniques, and metrics (lead time, throughput, WIP). * Public Cloud: foundational knowledge of AWS/Azure/GCP (IAM, networking, storage, VMs); mainframe–cloud integration (APIs, messaging, data offload, observability). **What We Offer** At Bradesco, we value health and well-being, offering an extensive portfolio of benefits to all our employees: * Profit Sharing (PLR) or Bonus: Based on position eligibility\* * Health Insurance * Dental Insurance * Life Insurance * Food Allowance * Meal Voucher * 13th Food Basket * Total Pass * Commuter Benefit (optional enrollment) * Discounts on products and services offered by partner companies * Private Pension Plan (optional enrollment, with financial contribution from Bradesco Organization) * Viva Bem Bradesco: health, well-being, and quality-of-life program * Unibrad: Bradesco Corporate University * Fee Waivers: special conditions across various products and services * Daycare or Babysitter Assistance * Extended Paternity Leave: 20 days * Maternity Leave: 180 days, including pregnancy assistance through postpartum