Software Development, Senior Associate at Peraton
UNAVAILABLE
$104,000–$166,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
UNAVAILABLE
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mainframe software developer role supporting a legacy Medicare Fee for Service claims processing system (DME contract) for a government IT services firm. Day-to-day work involves coding, debugging, and unit testing COBOL and Assembler enhancements and fixes within a SAFe Agile/Scrum environment, with a focus on operational stability and maintenance of critical health claims infrastructure.
Mid level · 2+ years · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title 'Software Development, Senior Associate' is a company-internal grade label, not a standard seniority level. The actual requirements (2–5 years of mainframe experience, BS+2 or HS+6) align with a Mid-level role, hence the seniority is assessed as Mid despite the 'Senior' word in the title.
No work location is specified in the posting; the CBSA and state fields are left blank. The role may be on-site at a government facility but this is not stated.
The posting states candidates 'must be able to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance' — this is a suitability determination, not a US security clearance (Confidential/Secret/TS), so the clearance requirement is set to None.
GitHub, Jira, Confluence, and Eclipse (IDz/RDz) appear in both the required qualifications section and the preferred qualifications section. They are treated as required based on their placement in the primary qualifications block.
SAFe experience and/or certification appears in the required qualifications block; SAFe is marked required accordingly.
Assembler language experience is listed only under Preferred Qualifications.
Java and Python are listed under Preferred Qualifications as 'exposure to modern languages.'
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