Lead Mainframe DB2 Engineer - Modernization & Resilience

MainframeMaster

Illinois

Hybrid

USD 179,000 - 205,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Job summary

Capital One in Riverwoods, Illinois seeks a Lead Software Engineer - Mainframe DB2 to join and lead our database engineering and software operations team. You will help build, modernize, and maintain secure, scalable DB2 data platforms powering core banking systems.

You will provide leadership, design complex DB2 configurations, mentor peers, drive performance tuning, disaster recovery, and data protection initiatives including Pervasive Encryption, while collaborating with application teams in

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
4+ years software engineering experience.
2+ years cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) exposure.
3+ years COBOL/JCL and mainframe utilities (ISPF/TSO).
3+ years DB2 performance tools and mainframe DR/security experience.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for DB2 administration across mainframe environments.
Design and support complex DB2 configurations, migrations, and DR plans.
Collaborate with dev teams on query tuning and workload optimization.
Drive data protection, including Pervasive Encryption for DB2 datasets.
Integrate distributed/cloud connectivity with mainframe DB2 and RESTful APIs.