The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
Lead Mainframe Developer
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, 07390
Lead Mainframe Developer
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (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 foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that reflects the world we serve.
The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets.
Pay And Benefits
Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
Comprehensive health, 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
Flexible/hybrid model: 3 days onsite and 2 days remote
The Impact You Will Have In This Role As a hands‑on technical leader for the mainframe core of Fund/SERV—the industry’s centralized platform for processing and settling mutual fund transactions—you will drive resiliency, performance, and change safety for systems used by hundreds of firms and tens of thousands of securities daily. You’ll reduce key‑person and legacy‑system risk by strengthening engineering practices on
COBOL/DB2/CICS/MQ , improving test/deploy automation, and capturing/curating system knowledge. You’ll also partner across Product, Operations and distributed engineering to advance our modernization agenda (APIs, data access, and platform simplification), while improving “follow‑the‑sun” support readiness and cross‑site collaboration. The measurable outcome: faster, safer releases; higher availability; and more predictable delivery for our mutual funds ecosystem.
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 efficient 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
Build 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; call out concerns appropriately
Qualifications
Minimum of 6 years of related experience
Bachelor’s degree preferred and/or equivalent experience
Talents Needed For Success
Knowledge in designing and developing sophisticated online and batch mainframe applications with COBOL as the programming language, CICS as the TPM, DB2 as the RDBMS
Knowledge of MQ and DB2 Connect as interface to communicate with distributed web application
Solid understanding in batch jobs using JCL with catalog procedures and files (PS/PDS/VSAM)
Perform and maintain scheduling activities of batch schedules using CA‑Scheduler
Expertise in application programming IDEs for mainframe (IDZ)
Solid understanding in version control/configuration management tools such as Changeman
Expertise in reverse‑engineering of mainframe applications involving DB2 and CICS
Develops a culture where integrity and clarity are encouraged
Knows the latest on changes in 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
Additional plus the knowledge of Mutual Funds and Mutual Fund Services
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.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Information Technology
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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 foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that reflects the world we serve.
The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets.
Pay And Benefits
Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
Comprehensive health, 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
Flexible/hybrid model: 3 days onsite and 2 days remote
The Impact You Will Have In This Role As a hands‑on technical leader for the mainframe core of Fund/SERV—the industry’s centralized platform for processing and settling mutual fund transactions—you will drive resiliency, performance, and change safety for systems used by hundreds of firms and tens of thousands of securities daily. You’ll reduce key‑person and legacy‑system risk by strengthening engineering practices on
COBOL/DB2/CICS/MQ , improving test/deploy automation, and capturing/curating system knowledge. You’ll also partner across Product, Operations and distributed engineering to advance our modernization agenda (APIs, data access, and platform simplification), while improving “follow‑the‑sun” support readiness and cross‑site collaboration. The measurable outcome: faster, safer releases; higher availability; and more predictable delivery for our mutual funds ecosystem.
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 efficient 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
Build 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; call out concerns appropriately
Qualifications
Minimum of 6 years of related experience
Bachelor’s degree preferred and/or equivalent experience
Talents Needed For Success
Knowledge in designing and developing sophisticated online and batch mainframe applications with COBOL as the programming language, CICS as the TPM, DB2 as the RDBMS
Knowledge of MQ and DB2 Connect as interface to communicate with distributed web application
Solid understanding in batch jobs using JCL with catalog procedures and files (PS/PDS/VSAM)
Perform and maintain scheduling activities of batch schedules using CA‑Scheduler
Expertise in application programming IDEs for mainframe (IDZ)
Solid understanding in version control/configuration management tools such as Changeman
Expertise in reverse‑engineering of mainframe applications involving DB2 and CICS
Develops a culture where integrity and clarity are encouraged
Knows the latest on changes in 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
Additional plus the knowledge of Mutual Funds and Mutual Fund Services
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.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Information Technology
Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) by 2x.
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Jersey City, NJ .
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