Senior Lead Application Developer

The Senior Lead Developer will be responsible for delivering high quality solutions within a mainframe environment while supporting evolving technological needs. This role focuses primarily on mainframe application development, integration, and operational excellence, with a preference for candidates who also bring exposure to modern development stacks. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across legacy and contemporary systems, ensuring reliability, security, and continuous improvement.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Designs, codes, unit tests, debugs, and implements complex solutions across financial systems using approved tools and technologies, including legacy mainframe platforms and modern development stacks (e.g., Python, Pega, distributed services, etc).

• Owns complex coding efforts, technical designs, and technical decision-making for high-risk or high-impact work.

• Produces technical specifications, flow diagrams, and proof-of-concepts to evaluate solution options and technical feasibility.

• Ensures source control, build, and deployment activities follow established standards and approved processes.

• Provides selective technical review for critical or high-risk work items, to ensure compliance with SDLC, secure coding, performance, and financial control standards.

• Serves as a technical escalation point for complex production and delivery issues, conducting root-cause analysis and recommending corrective actions.

• Participates in on-call production support rotations as required, focusing on issues exceeding routine support capabilities.

• Mentors onshore/offshore developers by providing technical guidance and knowledge transfer.

• Partners with the Offshore Liaison to clarify requirements, resolve technical issues, and reinforce standard development and documentation practices.

• Reviews selected deliverables to ensure alignment with approved designs and business requirements

• Acts as a technical authority across all financial systems, maintaining deep knowledge of cross-application behavior, data flows, integrations and processing dependencies.

• Serves as the primary point of consultation for complex functional or technical questions related to financial systems, including impacts across upstream and downstream applications.

• Provides guidance during project planning, issue resolution, audits and modernization efforts by evaluating system-wide implications and risks.

• Maintains accurate technical documentation and operational procedures

• Identifies recurring issues, support trends, and operational inefficiencies through incident analysis, and production metrics.

• Escalates high-risk or aging work with documented impact and recommendations.

• Partners with the Team Leader propose technical, process, or tooling improvements that improve delivery efficiency and reduce operational risk while maintaining system stability.

• Protects the company’s authority to do business by complying with legal and ethical standards, policies and procedures

• Follows all applicable Information Technology Management Policies

• Supports audit and compliance activities by ensuring technical artifacts, change records, and system documentation are complete, accurate, and aligned with SDLC and change‑management requirements.

Required Education:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with: COBOL, JCL, SQL (DB2 or equivalent), VSAM, CICS, TSO/ISPF, z/OS Unix System Services (USS).

• A solid understanding of mainframe architecture, batch/job scheduling, and performance tuning.

• Self-motivated with excellent verbal and written communication skills, and excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work well with peers and

• management

• Advanced knowledge of enterprise financial systems and application support within regulated or audit‑driven environments

• Strong understanding of secure coding practices, SDLC, change management, and audit‑friendly development standards

• In‑depth knowledge of mainframe application development concepts, including batch processing, online transaction processing, and data integration

• Working knowledge of financial transaction processing and system dependencies across upstream and downstream applications

• Expert‑level analytical and problem‑solving skills for diagnosing and resolving complex, high‑impact production and delivery issues

• Strong hands‑on development and debugging skills using mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL, SQL (DB2 or equivalent), VSAM, CICS, and TSO/ISPF

• Ability to perform technical reviews, assess risk, and evaluate solution design for performance, reliability, and compliance

• Effective written and verbal communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to technical and non‑technical stakeholders

• Ability to work independently with limited direction while keeping leadership informed of progress, risks, and issues

• Ability to prioritize and balance development work, technical review, and escalation support in a fast‑paced environment

• Ability to collaborate effectively across onshore and offshore teams

• Ability to maintain focus on quality, stability, and compliance while supporting evolving technology needs

• MVS, z/OS, JCL; debug tools e.g. Intertest, Xpediter, IBM Debugger

Preferred Skills:

• Experience supporting or enhancing financial systems within insurance, banking, or other financial services environments

• Experience working within audit‑driven environments, including year‑end processing and regulatory reporting cycles

• Experience operating within a distributed or remote team structure, including coordination with offshore resources

• Exposure to or working knowledge of modern development stacks such as Python, Pega, or distributed services

• Understanding of Workday EIB and/or Studio integrations

• Knowledge of BAI/BAI2 banking file formats and financial data exchange processes

• Experience using collaboration and tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, and enterprise documentation repositories

Strong preference for candidates local to Duluth, GA.

This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

The salary range for this role is $120k - $140K.

FLSA status:

This position is exempt (not eligible for overtime pay): Yes

Our Benefits:

• Day one health, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) Plan with competitive employer match

• Vacation, sick, holiday and volunteer time off

• Life and disability insurance

• Flexible Spending Account & Health Savings Account

• Professional development

• Tuition reimbursement

• Company-sponsored social and philanthropy events