Client: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement Work Location: 21 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Onsite Estimated Start Date: 2025-10-06

Estimated End Date: 2026-03-31

#Business Days: 250.00

Extension : 125.00

Hours per day or Week: 7.25 hours per day

Security Level: CRJMC

Must Haves

• At least 8 years of experience with mainframe application analysis and SDLC

Nice Have Prior Working experience with:

• Mainframe - IBM z/OS
• IMS DB/DC
• IBM COBOL
• PL/I
• ISPF
• TSO
• JCL/Clist
• Experience in implementing system to system integration (through APIs, web services) involving mainframe applications
• Demonstrated Experience leading data integration and migration initiatives.
• Creating pre and post migration data reports to ensure migration success, data quality and data integrity with ETL process and use of ETL tools to prepare and complete

Description Scope The purpose of this role is to provide mainframe expertise for the Courts Digital Transformation (CDT) project’s data migration and/or integration workstreams, which will include but not limited to data analysis, data development, preparation and extraction.

Assignment Deliverables

• Draft technical requirements, and prepare detailed technical solution design for maintenance of operational enhancement of mainframe systems.
• Write or change, maintain and unit test programs in IMS DB/DC Mainframe using IBM COBOL for ZOS, PL/I, BTS, JCL and CLIST, following existing standards.
• Write or change, maintain and unit test programs for conversion, and Integration (between the mainframe and application servers using tools such as Connect Direct and IMS connect), following existing standards.
• Promote programs from development to system test. System test online and batch programs. All work must follow existing standards.
• Provide support in the development & production environments.
• Develop, maintain and print reports using Clist. TSO, etc. All work is required to be completed following the MSB’s system development life cycle (SDLC).
• Prepare specifications, and document all modifications and enhancements made following existing standards.
• Complete work and achieve milestones within the assigned deadlines;
• Work with solution design lead to create data migration strategy and prepare data migration packages
• Provide application support, including participation in on-call rotation
• Support the testing teams during system and user acceptance testing
• Prepare deployment packages of code and instructions for builds in Development, UAT, and participate in knowledge transfer

Desired Skills And Experience

• Over 8+ years of overall experience in entire Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience maintaining and supporting mainframe solutions and databases
• Strong knowledge of data migration processes involving mainframe systems
• Strong IBM COBOL experience and expertise with the mainframe environment
• Experience in implementing system to system integration (through APIs, web services) involving mainframe applications
• Experience working in a similar technical environment
• Experience creating and maintaining reports within mainframe system
• Demonstrated experience in the use of tools to support application analysis
• Ability to apply lessons learned from applicable initiatives
• Successfully completed technical analysis of legacy applications for similar, complex environments
• Experience creating data reports for data migration
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Track record for meeting deadlines in a complex program environment

Experience And Skill Set Requirements Criteria 1: Technical Skills - 40 Points

• 5+ year experience in designing, developing and maintaining complex, mission-critical mainframe applications, operating on-line and in batch using an IMS platform and COBOL language.

• Prior Working experience with:

• Mainframe - IBM z/OS

• IMS DB/DC

• IBM COBOL

• PL/I

• ISPF

• TSO

• JCL/Clist

• Experience in implementing system to system integration (through APIs, web services) involving mainframe applications

Criteria 2: Data Migration Expertise - 30 Points

• Demonstrated Experience leading data integration and migration initiatives. Including leading discovery sessions with stakeholders and members of technical team to gather, analyze and document requirements for data migration.
• Creating pre and post migration data reports to ensure migration success, data quality and data integrity with ETL process and use of ETL tools to prepare and complete

Criteria 3: Analytical Skills - 25 Points

• Translating business requirements, functional specifications, system documentation, and use cases. This includes developing detailed programming specifications, user interface designs, prototypes, configuration and customization, compiling data driven programs, conducting unit tests and debugging code.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with various stakeholders and cross-functional teams of business and IT in dynamic and complex environment

Criteria 4: Public Sector Experience - 5 Points

• Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organization.

Note This position is currently listed as "Onsite" ; however, the Assignment under this request will provisionally be "Hybrid" , working 7.25 hours per calendar day, sometime between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM (excluding breaks) Monday to Friday inclusive, unless otherwise identified. These conditions are subject to change as the OPS reflects on its current situation. During the duration of the assignment, you will be under the discretion of the Hiring Manager's requirements for the Project you are assigned to.

The VOR Master Service Agreement which expires on April 5, 2026, leaves some Contracts with funding unassigned for fiscal 2026-27. If the current statement of work expires on March 31, 2026, the remaining funds can be used to exercise an option to extend the SOW beyond March 31, 2026, based on business case approvals. Such extensions will be allowable, only if the Master Service Agreement is extended beyond April 5, 2026, and be upon the same terms, conditions, and covenants contained in the SOW.

The start date is subject to change based on security clearances and contract signing timelines.

Eligibility and Application Steps If you are enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity, we kindly request you to provide the following documents: hrsmss@smsoftconsulting.com

Without mandatory documents, we cannot submit a candidate.

• Updated Resume in word format (Mandatory)
• Skills Matrix and References (Mandatory)
• Expected hourly rate (Mandatory)
• Visa Status (Mandatory)
• LinkedIn ID (Mandatory)

Please only apply if you meet the qualifications mentioned above. Feel free to share with your network or tag someone who fits for this role! If you have any questions or need further clarification, feel free to call or text at (647) 408-1348.