💼 Full-Time Position

Mainframe Dev Lead (Migration)

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J M Group Inc
📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Location
Toronto, Canada
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Posted
June 05, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

<p>We're looking for an experienced Mainframe Development Lead to take ownership of a focused migration program transitioning legacy FOCUS-based reporting and data processing workloads to COBOL, JCL, and SORT/ICETOOL on the mainframe. The ideal candidate brings expert-level mainframe fundamentals, proven migration experience, and the ability to guide development teams through structured legacy transformation.</p> <p><b>What you'll do</b></p> <ul> <li>Act as technical lead for the migration of FOCUS applications to COBOL, JCL, SORT, and ICETOOL solutions</li> <li>Own end-to-end design decisions ensuring functional parity, performance efficiency, and operational stability</li> <li>Analyze existing FOCUS programs, reports, and data flows to define and execute migration strategies</li> <li>Map FOCUS logic to optimized COBOL batch processing and SORT/ICETOOL utilities</li> <li>Identify ...