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SR. ENGINEER – MAINFRAME AND AWS INTEGRATION ENGINEER

Widenet Consulting

  • Remote, Washington
  • 3 days ago
  • Remote
  • Contractor

Highlights

Strong AWS engineering experience with services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, and RDS/Aurora. The engineer will participate in architecture discussions and implement solutions end to end, with the technical lead providing final design direction.

Numbers & Facts

LocationRemote, Washington (
Remote
)
Job TypeContractor
IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
Company Size50 to 99 employees
Year Founded2009
Websitehttp://www.widenet-consulting.com/

Description

Job Description:
Location: This is a remote position in the US only.

Job Description:
Hands-on senior engineer to extend and integrate a mainframe-based annuity policy administration system with AWS. The engineer will participate in architecture discussions and implement solutions end to end, with the technical lead providing final design direction.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and support applications using COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and JCL.
  • Build Python-based APIs, integrations, and automation on AWS.
  • Develop real-time and event-driven integrations supporting straight-through transaction processing.
  • Implement transaction validation, tracking, idempotency, retries, reconciliation, and monitoring.
  • Partner with a data specialist to build an Operational Data Store on AWS sourced primarily from DB2, with limited VSAM data.
  • Contribute to initial loads, near-real-time ingestion, transformations, validation, and data reconciliation.
  • Support testing, deployment, documentation, observability, and production troubleshooting.

Must-Have Skills

  • Strong, hands-on COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and JCL experience.
  • Strong Python development skills.
  • Strong AWS engineering experience with services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, and RDS/Aurora.
  • Experience building CICS webservice, REST APIs and event-driven integrations.
  • Strong AWS data-engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience developing and supporting business-critical mainframe systems.
  • Ability to understand complex legacy business logic and implement modern integrations end to end.

Preferred Skills

  • Vantage or similar mainframe-based annuity policy administration experience.
  • DB2-to-AWS or near-real-time data-integration experience.
  • Assembler experience.
  • Generative AI, RAG, or Amazon Bedrock experience.

Pay Range: $70.00 – $74.00 per hour, depending upon experience.
Health & Medical Benefits, 401K, Employee Assistance Program, and Sick Time applicable by state.

 

About Company

Whether you are a candidate looking for a new opportunity or an organization looking for talent, when you work with WideNet Consulting, you can be confident that you will receive an unequaled experience. As a leading technology consulting and recruitment firm, WideNet has built an outstanding reputation of consistently bringing together professionals, who are the best in their field, with exceptional opportunities at the finest, most dynamic companies.

Our strengths:

We understand the challenges of business and organization management. Our team has helped departments and companies identify specific challenges and solutions, then built road maps to a smoother business model.

We know technology project management and assist on projects at ANY point in the process.

We build our dream team of Clients & Candidates carefully and purposefully, and then interact with them intensely and often. The journey ends with the perfect fusion of our Client's business objectives and our Candidate's expertise working together in perfect harmony.

We use our proprietary recruiting strategy and process, WideScreen™ to match Candidate expertise to Client needs and culture, consistently exceeding expectations. We work to deliver the right person for the need AND the company.

We conduct business with honesty, integrity, and dedication. We do what we say we're going to do. We follow-up and follow through until the best candidate is matched to the right opportunity.

We are not a volume shop. We are completely focused on creating the best possible fit between our Client's business objectives and our Candidate's expertise, every time.

We help our Clients match their technology solutions with current staff configurations, then provide the tools, experience and resources to develop targeted Information Technology initiatives that improve productivity and enhance systems management.

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