What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mainframe Senior Lead Software Engineer - Cobol, CICS, DB2, VSAM position at JPMorgan Chase?
Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Technology in Mainframe technology team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications. This role combines hands-on mainframe development with project leadership and people management responsibilities. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Broker Dealer Post Trade functions—including Regulatory Reporting, Stock Record, and Statements & Confirms. You will drive the delivery of high-impact solutions, mentor team members, and ensure alignment with business objectives in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.
Job responsibilities
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of complex mainframe applications using COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and related technologies.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in Broker Dealer Post Trade functions, including Regulatory Reporting, Stock Record, and Statements & Confirms.
- Oversee and contribute to projects related to Stock Plan Administration systems and processes.
- Oversee project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring projects are completed on time and within scope.
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Experience in software development, with a focus on mainframe technologies.
- Extensive experience in mainframe development, including proficiency in COBOL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Demonstrated expertise in Broker Dealer Post Trade functions, specifically Regulatory Reporting, Stock Record, and Statements & Confirms. Experience in Stock Plan Administration.
- Demonstrated experience in project management, including planning, execution, and delivery of technology initiatives.
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop technical teams.
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in the financial services industry, with a strong preference for post-trade processing.
- Experience with additional mainframe tools and technologies.
- Exposure to non-mainframe programming languages or platforms (such as Java, .NET, Python, etc.) is a plus, but not required.
- Prior experience in people management or team leadership roles.