Manager IT, Core Engineering Applications - Omaha, Nebraska

PenFed Credit Union; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 85,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Life and disability coverage

Education assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

PenFed Credit Union seeks a seasoned Manager IT, Core Engineering Applications to lead a team of COBOL/JCL programmers across legacy and modernized systems. You will own delivery, production support, and high-availability performance of critical workloads, while driving integrations with Mule and Salesforce platforms and clear stakeholder communications.

Responsibilities include guiding architecture, ensuring security and compliance, and mentoring staff to foster a culture of modernization

Qualifications

• 8+ years writing/supporting COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve; 3–5 years managing teams.
• Extensive hands-on experience with COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, and REXX; Assembler knowledge a plus.
• Strong understanding of datasets/file structures, batch scheduling, utilities, and job control.
• Experience partnering with Mule and Salesforce teams on integrations and runs.
• Experience with SDLC, change/release management, observability, and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage programmers delivering design, development, implementation, and production support for legacy and modernization.
• Own reliability, performance, change control, and incident management for mainframe applications, jobs, datasets, and integrations.
• Coordinate with managers and architects for Mule and Salesforce to plan integrations, data flows, and runbooks.
• Engage business and IT stakeholders to align scope, clarify requirements, and secure outcomes.
• Provide status on milestones, risks, issues, and accomplishments for IT leadership and partners.
• Ensure alignment with IT standards, security policies, and audit/compliance requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business, or related field

Tools

COBOL

JCL

Easytrieve

REXX

Assembler

VSAM

Batch scheduling

Mule & Salesforce integration tooling

Job description

Job Overview

PenFed is hiring a Manager IT, Core Engineering Applications to work onsite at our Tysons, Virginia; Omaha, Nebraska or San Antonio, Texas location. The IT Manager oversees a team of COBOL, JCL, Hogan, Assembler, Mainframe programmers and the operation, enhancement, and stability of legacy systems. This role leads delivery and production support for critical batch and transactional workloads, partners closely with IT leaders on Mule and Salesforce platforms to ensure seamless integrations, and drives clear stakeholder communication, planning, and outcome-based reporting. The manager embraces innovation while advocating for the proven resiliency, performance, and business value of legacy platform capabilities.

Job Overview

PenFed is hiring a Manager IT, Core Engineering Applications to work onsite at our Tysons, Virginia; Omaha, Nebraska or San Antonio, Texas location. The IT Manager oversees a team of COBOL, JCL, Hogan, Assembler, Mainframe programmers and the operation, enhancement, and stability of legacy systems. This role leads delivery and production support for critical batch and transactional workloads, partners closely with IT leaders on Mule and Salesforce platforms to ensure seamless integrations, and drives clear stakeholder communication, planning, and outcome-based reporting. The manager embraces innovation while advocating for the proven resiliency, performance, and business value of legacy platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

• Lead, mentor, and manage programmers delivering design, development, implementation, and production support for legacy and modernized solutions.
• Own reliability, performance, change control, and incident management for mainframe applications, jobs, datasets, and integrations.
• Coordinate closely with managers and architects for Mule and Salesforce to plan integrations, data flows, and operational runbooks.
• Engage business and IT stakeholders across the lifecycle to align scope, clarify requirements, and secure successful outcomes.
• Provide daily/weekly status on milestones, risks, issues, and accomplishments tailored for IT leadership and business partners.
• Ensure work aligns with company strategy, IT standards, security policies, and audit/compliance requirements.
• Promote modernization opportunities (e.g., job optimization, error handling, observability) without compromising system stability.
• Manage Concept, Planning, Requirements, Procurement, Build, Test, Implement, and Closure phases with traceability and documentation.
• Identify, log, and drive resolution for risks/issues; implement corrective actions to protect scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
• Facilitate requirements, constraints, and assumptions; maintain design, runbooks, job schedules, recovery procedures, and support models.
• Track schedule, performance, quality, and budget with appropriate tools; adjust plans and resources to meet objectives.
• Support estimation and capacity planning to set realistic timelines and staffing needs.
• Maintain transparent, timely communication across IT teams and stakeholders; ensure decisions and changes are well documented.

Technical Leadership & Development

• Develop team skills through mentoring, training, and performance management.
• Encourage cross-functional collaboration and documentation of patterns, standards, and lessons learned.
• Foster a positive, accountable, high-performing team culture focused on continuous improvement.
• Establish measurable individual and team goals aligned to divisional and organizational priorities.
• Provide practical guidance, constructive feedback, and support for career development and succession planning.

Qualifications

• Minimum eight (8) years writing/supporting COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve; minimum three (3) to five (5) years managing teams as a manager or above.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience with COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, and REXX; Assembler knowledge is a plus.
• Strong understanding of datasets/file structures (e.g., VSAM, sequential), batch scheduling, utilities, and job control.
• Experience leveraging AI coding assistants (e.g., Copilot) for code authoring, refactoring, test generation, and documentation; applied responsibly with code review rigor, security, and compliance; considered a plus.
• Proven leadership of IT teams delivering complex initiatives and production support for mission critical systems.
• Familiarity with SDLC, change management, release management, observability, and incident/problem management.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with Mule and Salesforce teams on integrations, data exchange, and operational support.
• Excellent communication, organizational skills, and stakeholder management; able to work through ambiguity and make informed decisions.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position will supervise employees.

Licenses and Certifications

There are no licenses or certifications needed for this role.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.

*Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.*

Travel

Limited travel to various worksites is required.

Pay Transparency

The anticipated starting salary range for this role is $84,700.00 - $179,546.00

This position is eligible for an organizational performance based annual bonus, subject to board discretion and approval.

This position is eligible for an individual performance based annual bonus.

Benefits

At PenFed, we offer a robust benefits package designed to support you both personally and professionally. You'll have access to comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans; paid time off; and family-friendly benefits like paid parental leave, care support, and fitness center access. Financial wellness is encouraged through features like a 401(k) match, employee loan discounts, and fully paid life and disability coverage. We also support growth via education assistance, community involvement, and volunteer opportunities.

Our Purpose

Helping members achieve their dreams since 1935. Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) is one of America's largest federal credit unions, serving 2.8 million members worldwide with $29 billion in assets. PenFed offers market-leading certificates, checking and savings, credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, auto loans, and a wide range of other financial services, always with members' interests in mind. PenFed is federally insured by the NCUA and is an Equal Housing Lender.

Equal Employment Opportunity

PenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same. PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at [e-mail] .