Sr. Software Engineer at SOSi
Indianapolis, IN
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Jul 29, 2026
Indianapolis, IN
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Software Engineer role supporting a federal payroll and financial management program at a defense/government contractor. Day-to-day work centers on developing and maintaining COBOL applications in an IBM z/OS mainframe environment, resolving production batch-processing issues, and supporting software releases and deployments across a complex enterprise system. Suits an experienced engineer with deep legacy mainframe and enterprise business-systems background.
Senior level · 10+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 15 people in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 9–20
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 1, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The degree requirement lists a Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/Information Systems but explicitly states 'equivalent experience may be substituted,' so no minimum degree is flagged as a hard gate.
The posting requires the ability to *obtain* a Public Trust clearance — not an active clearance — so no clearance gate is set. Candidates who cannot obtain Public Trust would be screened out, but this is not a traditional security clearance tier.
SDLC, Production Support, Software Testing, and Configuration Management appear in the qualifications block but name no specific tool or platform, so they are omitted from the skills list per the no-generic-concepts rule.
Oracle Cognos and Endevor appear under the 'Preferred' section, as does domain experience with payroll/financial/ERP systems (domain knowledge, not a named tool, so omitted).
The alt SOC (15-1211 Computer Systems Analysts) is noted because a meaningful portion of the role involves requirements analysis, production support, and collaboration with stakeholders on an enterprise business system — though hands-on COBOL development is the primary work.
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