The offending job was working fine until I updated Jenkins to 2.32.1; the problem still manifests after having further updated to Jenkins ver. 2.32.2. I have other Jenkins jobs which run fine on the same master+slave (both running on the same machine) and can't discern any significant differences in their configuration.

The stack trace is:
Parsing POMs
ERROR: Failed to parse POMs
java.io.IOException: remote file operation failed: C:\jenkins\workspace\object-api\build-objectapi-codegen\codegen at hudson.remoting.Channel@a7fd77:Channel to /10.100.87.126: java.io.IOException: Remote call on Channel to /10.100.87.126 failed
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:992)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:974)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$MavenModuleSetBuildExecution.parsePoms(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:960)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$MavenModuleSetBuildExecution.doRun(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:679)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:534)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1728)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:531)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:404)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Remote call on Channel to /10.100.87.126 failed
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:830)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:985)
... 8 more
Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor15.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at com.google.inject.internal.DelegatingInvocationHandler.invoke(DelegatingInvocationHandler.java:50)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy30.lookup(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor15.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at com.google.inject.internal.DelegatingInvocationHandler.invoke(DelegatingInvocationHandler.java:50)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy30.lookup(Unknown Source)
... unbounded recursion ...
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor15.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at com.google.inject.internal.DelegatingInvocationHandler.invoke(DelegatingInvocationHandler.java:50)
at ......remote call to Channel to /10.100.87.126(Native Method)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1537)
at hudson.remoting.UserResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:253)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:822)
... 9 more

The stack trace is near identical to JENKINS-26601, which was reported against Jenkins 1.598 and resolved on 2015/Jan/28.