Principal Mainframe Engineer

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation; Coppell (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Comprehensive health and life insurance

Pension / Retirement benefits

Paid Time Off and personal/family care

Job summary

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation is seeking an experienced software developer specializing in COBOL and DB2 to join their IT CSS-WRAFT Delivery team in Coppell, Texas. You will work collaboratively to design, develop, and improve software systems while mentoring junior developers.

This role offers a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible hybrid working model, contributing to a thriving innovative environment that promotes professional growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of related experience required.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical expert for applications used by DTCC.
• Work with analysts to ensure designs meet functional requirements.
• Tune application performance to reduce issues.
• Mentor junior developers in code and production support.

Skills

COBOL programming

DB2 SQL queries

IBM MQ messaging

JCL scripting

Agile methodologies

AI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

CICS

Enterprise job scheduler

Job description

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.

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, 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.

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 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
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk; calls out concerns appropriately
• Mentor/Coach Junior developers in code development and production support
• Build application knowledge along with system knowledge to contribute effectively in development
• Reverse Engineer to troubleshoot or develop new enhancements

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

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Develop and maintain COBOL programs for batch and online processing in CICS regions.
• Design and optimize DB2 SQL queries, stored procedures, and ensure compliance with DB2 standards and performance tuning guidelines.
• Implement IBM MQ messaging solutions for inter-system communication, ensuring secure and reliable message delivery.
• Perform JCL scripting for job scheduling and execution; troubleshoot abends and optimize batch performance.
• Ensure alignment to SDLC and release management processes, including change package creation and migration to production environments.
• Collaborate in Agile squads, provide estimates, participate in sprint planning, and deliver incremental value.
• Support production environments, including incident triage, root cause analysis, and resolution
• Familiarity in using an enterprise job scheduler
• Strong curiosity about using AI tools to improve efficiency and deliver high-quality software applications faster
• Fosters a culture where integrity and clarity are expected.
• Knows the latest on changes 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.
• Experience in modernization project is a plus

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.