We are looking for an experienced Mainframe Technical Lead to lead the design, development, maintenance, and delivery of enterprise mainframe applications.

The candidate will provide technical leadership to development teams and work closely with business and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable and reliable solutions.

Key Responsibilities :

- Provide technical leadership for mainframe application development and maintenance projects.

- Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable mainframe solutions.

- Design application architecture and technical solutions using Mainframe technologies.

- Lead development, enhancement, modernization, and production-support activities.

- Review technical designs, source code, and implementation approaches.

- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to developers.

- Troubleshoot complex application and production issues.

- Coordinate with offshore/onshore teams and cross-functional stakeholders.

- Manage technical dependencies and ensure timely delivery of assigned initiatives.

- Support impact analysis for application changes and new requirements.

- Ensure adherence to coding, development, testing, security, and documentation standards.

- Participate in application modernization and integration initiatives where required.

- Coordinate with testing, release management, infrastructure, and production support teams.

- Conduct technical reviews and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

- Support estimation, planning, technical risk identification, and solution development.

Required Skills :

- 8 - 12 years of Mainframe development experience.

- Strong expertise in COBOL, JCL, DB2, and CICS.

- Good understanding of VSAM and Mainframe batch processing.

- Experience with production support and troubleshooting.

- Strong knowledge of application design and technical solutioning.

- Experience leading a team or working as a technical lead.

- Good understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies.

- Experience with source-code/version-control tools.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

- Preferred : Experience in Mainframe modernization, API/integration, cloud migration, or distributed-system integration.