Lead Software Engineer - Mainframe Developer

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? 

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location.
• Pension / Retirement benefits 
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee). 

The impact you will have in this role:

Provides technical expertise and may coordinate some day-to-day deliverables for a team. Assists in the technical design of large business systems; builds applications, interfaces between applications, understands data security, retention, and recovery. Can research technologies independently and recommend appropriate solutions. Contributes to technology-specific best practices & standards; contributes to success criteria from design through deployment, including, reliability, cost-effectiveness, performance, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability and scalability; contributes expertise on significant application components, vendor products, program languages, databases, operating systems, etc., and guides less experienced staff during the build and test phases. 

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as a technical expert on one or more applications used by DTCC.
• Work with the Business System Analyst to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements.
• Partner with Infrastructure to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments.
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues.
• Research and evaluate technical solutions consistent with DTCC technology standards.
• Align risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; advances appropriately.
• Apply different software development methodologies dependent on project needs.
• Contribute expertise to the design of components or individual programs, and participate in the construction and functional testing.
• Support development teams, testing, fixing, and production support.
• Create applications and construct unit test cases that ensure compliance with functional and non-functional requirements.
• Work with peers to mature ways of working, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Talents needed for Success:

• 8+ years' experience in application development or system analysis
• Bachelor's degree in technical/computer field or related experience required.
• Knowledge in Designing and Developing complex Online and Batch Mainframe Application with COBOL as programming language, CICS as TPM, DB2 as RDBMS
• Knowledge on MQ and DB2 Connect as interface to communicate with Distributed Web application.
• Working knowledge in Batch jobs using JCL with Catalog procedures and files (PS/PDS/VSAM)
• Perform and maintain scheduling activities of Batch Schedules using CA-Scheduler
• Expertise in Application programming IDEs for Mainframe (IDZ)
• Working knowledge in Version control/Config. Management tools such as ChangeMan
• Expertise in reverse-engineering of Mainframe applications involving DB2 and CICS
• Nice to have: CI/CD processes for Mainframe

Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.