Senior Software Engineer (Cobol)

This role is open for multiple levels and titles. Final title/compensation will be determined by how your interview weighs against our core competencies during your interview cycle.

Position summary

The Senior Software Engineer’s purpose is to improve overall engineering quality through documentation, technical guidance and mentoring, and applying best practices to the work. The incumbent leads significant migration efforts and routinely works with government stakeholders to get buy-in on technical initiatives. This role collaborates with the product team, government stakeholders, and other contractors to build new systems and make improvements to existing systems. These responsibilities support Nava’s culture and mission.

What you'll do

Define the technical vision and modernization strategy in collaboration with clients and the delivery team

Ensure that the modernized system maintains parity with essential legacy functions while introducing improvements

Make key architectural decisions that balance long-term program goals with short-term delivery needs

Prioritize technical tasks and manage trade-offs to align with client goals

Coordinate with clients and stakeholders to capture critical business rules and constraints

Serve as a technical counterpart to client engineering and IT teams, supporting alignment and trust-building

Facilitate cross-functional and cross-delivery-team coordination to unlock dependencies and ensure steady progress across the modernization effort

Required skills

At least 10 years of experience working in COBOL Mainframe applications

Significant experience in IMS, DB2, VSAM, CICS, MQ, Jes2, JCL, TSO

Working experience in IBM and CA utility programs

Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate in working code

Familiarity of how mainframe systems interact with other unconnected systems through messaging platforms

Understanding of the overall process of CICS processing and flow

Excellent attention to detail around user experience and code cleanliness

Excellent written and real-time communication

Interest in researching and uncovering answers to complex technical problems

Comfort with ambiguity in project direction and interest in supporting a growing team

Working with other vendors and multiple government agencies

Compensation

$153,000—$171,000 USD