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You Are
An experienced Mainframe Developer with a strong background in COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, and VSAM, ideally within Canadian retail banking or retail investments. You bring strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, hands-on mainframe expertise, and experience supporting complex, business-critical applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2, and CICS
• Build and optimize batch processing for account processing, interest calculation, fee assessment, investment transactions, income distributions, and tax slip generation (T3, T5, T4RSP/RIF, NR4)
• Develop online transactions and interfaces for branch, advice, digital, and call-centre channels
• Convert functional specifications into technical designs, and perform impact analysis and code reviews
• Troubleshoot production incidents including abends, data issues, and batch delays; participate in on-call support
• Support integration with distributed systems via MQ, APIs, and z/OS Connect
• Deploy changes using change and release management tools, following SDLC and ITIL processes
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures
• Adhere to security, audit, and regulatory controls, including data privacy and segregation of duties
• This role requires a minimum of 3 days per week of on-site presence in Mississauga.

Here’s What You Need

• Atleast 5–10+ years of hands-on mainframe development experience, with strong exposure to Canadian retail banking and/or retail investments
• You bring strong proficiency in COBOL, JCL, DB2 (including SQL and performance tuning), CICS, and VSAM
• You bring experience working with DFSORT/SYNCSORT, REXX, and enterprise scheduling tools such as CA-7, Control-M, or TWS
• You bring hands-on experience using debugging and data analysis tools such as Xpediter, Abend-AID, File-AID, and Fault Analyzer
• You bring experience developing and maintaining COBOL programs and copybooks in IDz, including use of the z/OS Connect toolkit to map OpenAPI JSON schemas to backend data structures such as COMMAREA and containers
• You bring experience integrating z/OS Connect adapters with CICS, IMS, and Db2 subsystems, and using IDz interactive tools to debug and trace API execution on z/OS
• You should bring experience with source code and release management tools such as Endevor, ChangeMan, or Git-based platforms
• You bring a strong understanding of batch processing windows, SLAs, restart/recovery design, and data reconciliation
• You bring strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related field

Bonus points if:

• You bring experience working with a major Canadian bank, investment dealer, or fund company
• You should bring knowledge of retail investment processing, including mutual fund trades, Fundserv messaging, registered plan contributions and withdrawals, withholding tax, and year-end slips
• You bring exposure to IMS, PL/I, or Assembler
• You should bring experience with mainframe DevOps tools and practices, including Zowe, Jenkins, IBM DBB, and IBM Z Open Development
• You bring familiarity with modernization initiatives, including mainframe-to-cloud integration and API enablement
• You should bring an understanding of OSFI technology and cyber risk expectations (B-13) and third-party risk guidelines (B-10)

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.Information on benefits is here.

Role Location: British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick Annual Salary Range: $82,600 to $132,600

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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