Lead Mainframe Engineer

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 CSS-WRAFT Delivery team, in this role, you will be a hands‑on technical leader for the mainframe core of Fund/SERV—the industry’s centralized platform for processing and settling mutual fund transactions—driving resiliency, performance, and change safety for systems used by hundreds of firms and tens of thousands of securities daily. You’ll reduce key‑person and legacy‑system risk by strengthening engineering practices on COBOL/DB2/CICS/MQ, improving test/deploy automation, and capturing/curating system knowledge. You’ll also partner across Product, Operations, and distributed engineering to advance our modernization agenda (APIs, data access, and platform simplification), while improving “follow‑the‑sun” support readiness and cross‑site collaboration. The measurable outcome: faster, safer releases; higher availability; and more predictable delivery for our mutual funds ecosystem.

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 efficient hosting environments
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues
• Research and evaluate technical solutions consistent with DTCC technology standards
• 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, troubleshooting, and production support
• Build 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
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk; calls out concerns appropriately

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

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Knowledge in Designing and Developing sophisticated 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.
• Solid understanding 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)
• Solid understanding in Version control/Config. Management tools such as Changeman
• Expertise in reverse-engineering of Mainframe applications involving DB2 and CICS
• Develops a culture where integrity and clarity are encouraged.
• Knows the latest on changes in their own specialist area and seeks out learning opportunities to ensure knowledge is up-to-date.
• Invests effort to individually mentor others.
• Builds collaborative teams across the organization.
• Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization advised.
• A huge plus with any knowledge of Mutual Funds - Mutual Fund Services (MF) delivers a broad range of innovative transactional and information services to automate, standardize and centralize processes to create efficiencies and reduce cost and risk for the mutual fund marketplace. MF solutions drive business relationships between asset managers and their distributors, linking a vast network including fund companies, investment managers, broker/dealers, banks, trusts, and other financial services firms that offer fund investments to the market.

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. 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.