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Mainframe Technical Lead

Cognizant North America
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k)
United States, Florida, Tampa
Jun 03, 2025

About Us:

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we're improving everyday life.

Job Title: Mainframe Technical Lead

Location: Remote

Job ID: SO# 00064339451

Role and Responsibilities:

* Requires a seasoned professional with 6 to 10 years of experience in IBM Mainframe Utilities, VSAM, JCL, and Cobol,

* Experience in OpenVMS operating system, its programming languages, VSI Cobol, VSI Basic, datatrieve, RDB,CMS and tools.

* Healthcare claims processing knowledge is required.

* The role is crucial for driving technical excellence and ensuring seamless operations within the claims processing system.

* Ability to develop relationships with stakeholders and understand the requirements through excellent listening and effective written and verbal communication

* Self-driven, innovative, motivated, well-organized, willingness to work on an onsite/offshore model and ability to work in remote setting.

* Understand functional specs and create detailed technical design (technical Design document)

* Develop solutions following industry best practices and perform thorough unit testing

* Participate in Systems/Integration Testing and support User Acceptance Testing.

* Resolve application defects and implement system enhancements

* Support QA and release management procedures and general system maintenance

* Postproduction Support

Required Experience:

* Strong technical knowledge in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Oracle.

* Ability to learn similar legacy technologies is required.

* Optional OpenVMS experience.

* Extensive experience with writing batch routines involving complex business scenarios and scheduling them.

* Strong healthcare domain knowledge (Healthcare Terminology)

* Good understanding of the Claims intake, 837, and claims adjudication, payments.

* Exposure to SoapUI, APIs, mongo, C# is welcomed, but optional.

* Good understanding of Member Enrollment is required.

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applicants will be accepted till 6/23/2025

The annual salary for this position will be in the range of $85K-$93K depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

  • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
  • Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
  • 401(k) plan and contributions
  • Long-term/Short-term Disability
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, creativity, productivity, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We want someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft meaningful solutions through true collaboration.

If you are content with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you!

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