Job Overview
Role: Mainframes Trained Grads / Mainframe Apprentice Location: Hyderabad Experience: Freshers Qualification: B.E/B.Tech Key Skills: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, z/OS, Python, SQL
Job Description
CGI Off Campus Drive 2026 is a fresher opportunity for B.E/B.Tech graduates who have completed foundational training in mainframe technologies. CGI is looking for Mainframes Trained Grads for a Mainframe Apprentice role in Hyderabad. Candidates with knowledge of COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, and z/OS concepts can apply for this opportunity. The role is designed for freshers who want to begin their careers in mainframe application development, testing, and production support. Selected candidates will work under experienced team members while gaining practical exposure to mainframe applications, coding, testing, job execution, and troubleshooting.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Application Support: Support mainframe application development and maintenance activities under the guidance of senior team members.
- JCL Management: Create, modify, and execute basic JCL jobs and analyse job outputs.
- COBOL Development: Perform basic COBOL coding, testing, and debugging under supervision.
- DB2 Queries: Write and execute basic DB2 SQL queries and support data-related activities.
- Error Analysis: Analyse basic compile errors, JCL errors, job monitoring issues, and abends with guidance.
- Process Adherence: Follow established coding, testing, documentation, and change-management processes.
- Learning & Adaptation: Learn and adapt to the organization's mainframe applications, tools, and business processes.
- Collaboration: Work closely with senior developers and support teams.
- Task Ownership: Progressively take ownership of assigned technical tasks.
Skills and Eligibility Criteria
Educational Background: B.E/B.Tech
Experience: Freshers
Mandatory Technical Skills:
- Foundational or relevant training in mainframe technologies.
- Basic knowledge of mainframe application development, testing or support concepts.
- COBOL (Basic programming and debugging concepts)
- JCL (Creating, modifying and executing basic jobs)
- DB2 (Basic SQL queries and database-related activities)
- VSAM (Understanding of VSAM data sets and mainframe data handling)
- CICS (Foundational knowledge of transaction processing concepts)
- Mainframe Utilities (Basic knowledge of commonly used utilities)
- z/OS (Understanding of core z/OS concepts)
- Python (Exposure to Python)
- SQL (Exposure to SQL)
Competencies:
- AI Governance (Exposure)
- FastAPI (Exposure)
- Oracle (Exposure)