Sr. Cobol Mainframe Developer

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.
 
Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

As a Cobol Mainframe Developer at CVS Health, you will be responsible for the analysis, design, development, and deployment of critical integrated system releases. The Mainframe Developer is essential for ensuring the delivery of business value and that production applications remain stable with excellent performance and optimal scalability. The Mainframe Developer will work in an Agile scrum team environment, in close collaboration with business partners, product owners, architecture and other IT partners.

Responsibilities:

• Develop mainframe applications according to customer specifications and requirements.
• Participate in requirements gathering and design sessions.
• Design and develop solutions that enable applications to perform optimally, and which can scale to meet future business needs.
• Perform thorough unit and integration testing, and support QA testing and deployment activities.
• Monitor systems to ensure that they are functioning properly.
• Analyze and optimize applications; troubleshoot and resolve any issues.
• Create and maintain documentation related to mainframe applications.
• Stay current with the latest trends in the industry.
• Closely interact with project managers, business analysts, and other developers, both locally and remote.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience with the following:
  • Mainframe development and support, utilizing several of the following technologies:  COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, SQL, or MQ.
  • Systems analysis: code validation, code review, and code changes.
  • Software design principles and software architecture (SDLC)
  • Agile delivery methodologies

• 7+ years of capabilities and experience in the following areas:
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to manage changing priorities.
  • Ability to multitask effectively, prioritizing business impact and urgency.
  • Ability to work in a team environment to deliver projects.
  • Being a self-starter, who takes initiative with challenging situations.
  • Must be able to support East Coast hours.

Preferred Experience

• healthcare experience

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related degree or relevant work experience.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$130,295.00 - $284,280.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.  This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. 
 
In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities.  The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits.  Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees.  The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners.  As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies. 
 
For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS Health

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 02/21/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.