A company on Boring Road in Patna is hiring an Associate Mainframe Developer for a full-time, on-site role. It pays INR 63,500 a month.
Skills required
COBOL forms the core of this role, along with JCL for writing and modifying batch job scripts. DB2 knowledge is essential for working with the data these programs read and write. General familiarity with mainframe systems and batch processing rounds out what the team needs day-to-day.
A few additional skills would strengthen an application:
- CICS experience for online transaction processing
- VSAM file handling
- Familiarity with mainframe utilities such as SORT or IDCAMS
- Basic scripting ability for automating repetitive job monitoring tasks
What you'd be doing
- Write and maintain COBOL programs supporting core business processes
- Create and modify JCL scripts to run and schedule batch jobs
- Work with DB2 to read, write, and validate data used by production programs
- Debug batch job failures, tracing errors back through job logs and program output
- Take part in code reviews with senior developers on the team
A recent issue on the team: a nightly batch job started abending with a DB2 lock timeout error, and it turned out a newly scheduled reporting job had overlapping access to the same table during the same time window. Tracing it required comparing job schedules and lock wait times across two separate processes rather than assuming the failing job itself was broken. Mainframe environments run so many interconnected jobs that problems like this show up more often than people outside the field tend to expect.
Qualifications and experience
A bachelor's degree is required for this associate-level role. Hands-on exposure to mainframe development tools, even from coursework or a short internship, genuinely helps during the interview process. This role calls for 12 months of relevant experience.
Pay and benefits
The role pays INR 63,500 a month. This listing on Naukri Mitra includes health insurance, paid time off, and provident fund contributions as standard. Since the position is on-site in Boring Road, relocation assistance and accommodation support are also available for candidates relocating from other cities.
Working on this team
Mainframe development runs on a different rhythm than newer tech stacks, with systems that have been running reliably for decades and a codebase where stability matters more than shipping something new every week. Associates on this team get real ownership of specific COBOL programs fairly early on, working alongside senior developers who've often spent years, sometimes their whole career, on this platform. That kind of institutional knowledge is genuinely valuable to learn from directly.
How to apply
Send a resume that highlights any COBOL, JCL, or DB2 coursework or project work, whether from a class, an internship, or independent study. Candidates without direct mainframe experience but a strong grasp of structured programming and a genuine interest in learning the platform are still worth applying. Shortlisted candidates go through a technical interview covering COBOL and JCL fundamentals.
