Mainframe Technical Lead

£600 per day inside IR35

3 Month Contract

• Based in either the UK or Germany
• Must have working proficiency in both English & German
• Remote, meetings in either Kln or Frankfurt twice per month

We are seeking an experienced Mainframe Technical Lead / SME to support a complex Inkasso (collections) application.

The role will focus primarily on BAU support and technical leadership for a legacy mainframe platform while acting as a bridge between the German onshore stakeholders and the offshore engineering team.

A key objective is to stabilise knowledge transfer and reduce dependency on long-tenured SMEs, ensuring sustainable support capability within the offshore team.

Mainframe technologies include:

• COBOL

• DB2

• IMS

• VSAM

• JCL and standard z/OS batch processing

• Typical insurance mainframe integration patterns

Required Experience

• 10+ years mainframe development/support experience

• Strong hands-on expertise with COBOL, DB2, IMS and VSAM

• Experience supporting large enterprise legacy applications

• Proven experience in BAU production support environments

• Strong stakeholder management capability

• Fluent &English/German (spoken and written)

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