Lead Mainframe Engineer; Cobol

Lead Mainframe Engineer (Cobol)

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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.

• 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).

Being a member of IT CSS-WRAFT Delivery team, you will be responsible in planning, documenting technical requirements, designing, developing, and testing all software systems and applications for the firm. Work closely with architects, product managers, project management, and end‑users in the development and improvement of existing software systems and applications, proposing and recommending solutions that tackle sophisticated business problems. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions.

May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re‑engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in‑depth domain expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Align 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.

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

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