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About the Role

As a Technical Lead – Mainframe, you will play a key role in shaping the future of core insurance platforms and evolving critical systems. You will blend hands-on engineering with leadership, guiding teams to modernize mainframe environments and connect them into cloud-enabled, API-driven ecosystems. This is an opportunity to influence the delivery of reliable, secure, and scalable solutions while advancing the company's technology transformation.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and optimization of mainframe applications across COBOL, CICS, JCL, and DB2 environments.
Drive the evolution of legacy platforms into modern, API-enabled, and cloud-integrated solutions.
Own solution design and ensure technical delivery aligns with architectural roadmaps and engineering standards.
Champion emerging engineering practices including automation, DevSecOps, and AI-assisted development.
Partner with architects and chapter leads to uplift code quality, testing standards, and design patterns.
Contribute hands-on through development and proof of concepts to enable high-quality delivery outcomes.

Requirements

Extensive experience in software engineering with a strong track record leading teams delivering complex, enterprise-scale systems across distributed and mainframe environments.
Deep hands-on expertise across core mainframe technologies (COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2) with proven experience supporting and evolving mission-critical platforms.
Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy applications into API-driven or cloud-integrated architectures, ideally within large transformation programs.
Strong understanding of DevOps and DevSecOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, automation, testing strategies, and secure software delivery.
Broad technical capability across multiple layers including backend services, integration, infrastructure, and cloud technologies such as AWS or container platforms.
Experience influencing technical direction and working with architects and stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions.

Skills

COBOL
CICS
JCL
DB2
API-driven architectures
Cloud-integrated architectures
DevOps
DevSecOps
CI/CD pipelines
Automation
Testing strategies
Secure software delivery
AWS
Container platforms

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Lead

Benefits

5 weeks of annual leave for permanent staff
15 days of personal/carer’s leave
Family Care (parental leave)
Hybrid working arrangement (3 days in office, 2 days remote)
AUD$500 wellbeing payment per year
AUD$295 new starter e-voucher for work-from-home setup
Award-winning training programs
Global mobility opportunities
Volunteer opportunities
State-of-the-art Green Star rated offices
Tree planted for every new employee

About the Company

Forbes 2024 ‘World’s Best Employers’
Fortune’s ‘World’s Most Admired Companies’ for 2025
Leader in the insurance industry
Values-driven global organisation
Committed to making a tangible difference and taking continuous steps towards a sustainable future

Equal Opportunity

Zurich is an equal opportunity employer.
Committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair and accessible for all candidates.
Encourage candidates requiring special accommodations to let us know at the time of application.