Senior Mainframe Engineer

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Job Description:

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Senior Mainframe Engineer, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

How you will make an impact

• Support the installation, configuration, management, and ongoing operation of software components across staging and production mainframe environments, including user support for loading regression files and testing components.
• Lead and manage relationships with mainframe vendors related to upgrades, maintenance windows, and downtime, while supporting government-related work that requires timely, deliberate, and detail-oriented delivery.
• Develop, maintain, and support CICS and batch caller applications for software components, including troubleshooting and debugging issues in collaboration with downstream teams and clients.
• Perform performance testing and tuning of components to optimize processing speed and memory usage in alignment with company and client requirements.

• Design, program, own, and support Java applications using industry-standard software engineering practices and collaborate with technical writers to create and maintain install manuals and user guides for mainframe-based software components.

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited university AND Six (6) years of Experience in software development

OR

High School Diploma/GED or higher (completed and verified prior to start) and Ten (10) years in the years of experience in software development in lieu of the bachelor’s degree education requirement

AND

• Experience supporting and working within IBM’s mainframe environment
• Five (5) years of mainframe administration experience
• Ten (10) years of software engineering experience on the mainframe

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field from an accredited institution, with five (5) years of professional experience in a private, public, government, or military environment
• Experience maintaining mainframes, including installs, upgrades, patches, configuration, tuning, and mainframe/Unix partitioning
• Experience with mainframe technologies including COBOL/VSAM, BAL (assembler), OS/JCL, CICS, TSO, MVS, SCLM source control; ability to program, run jobs, and debug COBOL, Java, runtime errors, and complications
• Working knowledge of Java (OSGI bundle), object-oriented design and design patterns, and proficiency using IDEs such as Eclipse, IntelliJ, or Visual Studio for debugging, code completion, searching, and performance metrics
• Proficiency with software configuration management and build automation (e.g