Senior Mainframe Developer & Tech Lead

NTT DATA North America; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 96,800 - 145,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k with match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

NTT DATA North America is seeking a Mainframe Developer to lead critical initiatives in Dallas, TX. You will drive architecture decisions on a data-heavy platform, set technical standards, and mentor engineers across teams.

The role demands deep CICS, COBOL, DB2, and JCL experience within financial services. You’ll engage with Operations on upgrades, troubleshoot issues, and influence process improvements to enhance customer service delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar subject.
• 5+ years of experience in information technology.
• Financial services experience, preferably in Brokerage Domain.
• 5+ years on CICS, COBOL, DB2, VSAM and JCL.
• 5+ years CICS System knowledge would be valuable.
• Good understanding of CICS Dynamic Transaction Routing process.
• Familiar with DB2 tools, File-Aid, scheduler and debugger tools.
• Understanding of Distributed Applications/ System
• Exposure to Brokerage/Finance domain will be an added advantage
• Prior experience of working in highly transactional, fault tolerant and data driven systems.
• Ability to identify areas of risk or potential problems and take action to mitigate them and work with less experienced staff to mitigate more complex issues.
• Ability to apply different communication and leadership styles for different teams and geographies.
• Ability to lead through influence and know what data is needed to drive effective decisions
• Ability to assess and plan project, and stakeholders needs, and manage deadlines, risks.
• Ability to anticipate roadblocks, diagnose problems and generate effective solutions
• Ability to build communication and rapport with partners, stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt in a changing environment and be effective in many different business settings.
• Ability to take initiative, define vision for betterment of products, and execute at high level of quality
• Ability to plan and work with geographically spread out teams
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Curiosity to constantly relearn/explore new processes/technologies

Responsibilities

• Provide thought & technical leadership for the key initiatives.
• Developing and maintaining architecture solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data.
• Setting, communicating, and reinforcing technical standards
• Providing leadership for junior and senior engineers alike, by understanding how to leverage and enhance their current skills
• Assessing and researching current implementations of the platform and determining the course of action required to elevate the platform to meet customer needs.
• Working with Operations to plan major infrastructure upgrades, to troubleshoot issues and to tune the environment for optimal performance and uptime
• Collaborating with peers and management on process improvement ideas, policy and procedure enhancements, and opportunities to improve our customer's service experience.
• Participating in code review and unit testing and providing support on issues in non-prod or production

Skills

CICS

COBOL

DB2

VSAM

JCL

CICS Routing

Distributed Apps

Brokerage Finance domain

Leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

DB2 tools

File-Aid

Scheduler

Debugger tools

Job description

NTT DATA North America is seeking a Mainframe Developer to lead critical initiatives in Dallas, TX. You will drive architecture decisions on a data-heavy platform, set technical standards, and mentor engineers across teams.

The role demands deep CICS, COBOL, DB2, and JCL experience within financial services. You’ll engage with Operations on upgrades, troubleshoot issues, and influence process improvements to enhance customer service delivery.