Mainframe Solution Architect – COBOL

At Genworth, we empower families to navigate the aging journey with confidence. We are compassionate, experienced allies for those navigating care with guidance, products, and services that meet families where they are. Further, we are the spouses, children, siblings, friends, and neighbors of those that need care—and we bring those experiences with us to work in serving our millions of policyholders each day.

We apply that same compassion and empathy as we work with each other and our local communities. Genworth values all perspectives, characteristics, and experiences so that employees can bring their full, authentic selves to work to help each other and our company succeed. We celebrate our diversity and understand that being intentional about inclusion is the only way to create a sense of belonging for all associates.

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This hybrid position will either be based in Lynchburg, VA or Richmond, VA.

In your role as the Mainframe Solution Architect, you will support several of Genworth's top strategic priorities. You will work with the various development teams and the support team for the CLOAS application, the mainframe-based system that lies at the core of Long Term Care Policy Administration. The CLOAS application sits at the center of all policy processing for the business and contains the data and business logic for all customer service operations.

It integrates with many peripheral systems using Web Services and MQ. The CLOAS team uses Agile development methodologies and is actively implementing modern tools for development and testing. The system is among the most active Genworth systems with multiple ongoing enhancements and upgrades to support evolving business needs. You will assist the Long‑Term Care Solutions team in helping them understand how to technically slice stories based upon data/code by implementing complex business concepts into software.

• Manage all aspects related to software engineering of the LTC CLOAS Admin system, including architecture design, development, implementation, maintenance, and support.
• Lead technical sessions as necessary to understand complex business needs.
• Ensure the design solution meets coding standards, desired business outcome, acceptance criteria, does not cause unintended impact and fits within the overall technical architecture.
• Assist support and/or project personnel in resolving complex program problems.
• Perform technical analysis and component code review of the solution.
• Assess the current systems architecture and work with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it.
• Stay updated on current technology trends and industry best practices.
• Understand the impact of downtime on business processes.
• Support Genworth’s LTC CLOAS administration system by ensuring application controls are followed and audit, security and risk program requests are handled as part of normal operations.
• Implement continuous improvement as part of normal operations and drive change across LTC business and technology teams.
• Research current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed.
• Partner with business leaders to ensure system alignment.

• 4-year college degree or relevant equivalent experience with strong mainframe (COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS) programming skills and production support experience, preferably in insurance/finance domain.
• 5+ years of experience working in the Insurance or Financial Services industry.
• Practical knowledge of LTC insurance products and premiums.
• 2+ years of experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum…