Lead Software Engineer - Mainframe Developer

Job Description

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 are 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.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

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

Being a member of IT SIFMU Delivery team, you will support core Clearing and Settlement applications for DTC, NSCC and FICC as well as Wealth Management & Insurance Services will be managed by this group, which will also oversee Master Reference Data.

You will collaborate with your peers within and outside your area to ensure that any best practices/approaches/standards are reused. You would be part of an Agile squad and will collaborate with the Product Owner (PO) to understand the business needs and participate in planning, definition, and high-level technical design with the development team. You will collaborate with your peers within and outside your area to ensure that any best practices/approaches/standards are reused and designing elegantly and robustly.

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
  
  

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree (preferred) or equivalent experience
  
  

Talents Needed For Success

• 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
  
  

Soft Skills

• Works well as part of team. Self-motivated, tenacious learner
• Curious and agile attitude
• Strong communicator who is a self-starter and highly motivated individual
• Able to support multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced work environment
• Able to provide adequate guidance & governance to project teams during component integration
• Excellent organizational, communication and leadership skills
  
  

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.

About Us

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry’s needs and we’re working to continually improve the world’s most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.

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About The Team

The IT SIFMU Delivery Department supports core Clearing and Settlement application delivery for DTC, NSCC and FICC. The department also develops and supports Asset Services, Wealth Management & Insurance Services and Master Reference Data applications.