SDC WAMT Principal Mainframe Engineer---Manager---Dallas, Raleigh, San Antonio

EY•Raleigh, NC

2d•$86,600 - $224,700•Onsite

About The Position

We are a professional services firm with a business unit dedicated to the financial services marketplace. Our teams have been at the forefront of every event that has reshaped and redefined the financial services industry. If you have a passion for rallying together to solve the most complex challenges in the financial services industry, come join our dynamic team! We help our clients transform. Together we are changing the way they interact with their Customers, Employees and Partners alike. We are modernizing their applications, creating new ones and driving business efficiency across their ever-changing platform and channel infrastructures. Everything we do centers around this simple story. The opportunity As a Technology Service Delivery Manager, you’ll be based in our Service Delivery Center, which is made up of high-performing US-based colleagues who work closely with our experienced advisory professionals. We deliver Technology project-based work and managed services to our clients. Here, you’ll work as part of a project team and will be responsible for the design, build/configuration, testing, analysis, delivery and support of Technology solutions. This position is fast-paced and ever-changing, which means you’ll need to be a flexible self-starter and be able to manage changing priorities and learning new and rapidly changing technology solutions. We are looking for highly technical Mainframe Engineers who will lead the delivery of high-volume, business-critical production platforms for our financial services clients. The team leverages COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, and related mainframe technologies to maintain and enhance enterprise applications in both batch and online environments. This role provides architecture, governance, and technical leadership across complex, enterprise-scale initiatives.

Requirements

Deep hands-on skills in COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, IBM Utilities, FileAID, Endevor, SQL, Debuggers, Schedulers, and IOMs.
Perform detailed analysis for maintenance and enhancement projects across batch and online environments, and design, deploy, and support software releases into production.
Identify the root cause of problems and design and implement technical design solutions, including handling high-severity/critical production issues.
Employ strong data security skills to keep customers’ information safe, and execute thorough unit, functional, and regression testing.
Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% of the time.
BS/BA or advanced degree, or equivalent experience preferred.
Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in software development for business-critical, enterprise-wide applications, architecture, and technical leadership.
Excellent mainframe development skills in COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, IBM Utilities, FileAID, Endevor, SQL, Debuggers, Schedulers, and IOMs.
Ability to perform hands-on detailed analysis for maintenance and enhancement projects in batch and online environments.
Experience designing, deploying, and supporting software releases into production environments.
Strong data security skills and thorough unit, functional, and regression testing discipline.
Experience handling high-severity/critical production issues and identifying root causes with sound technical design solutions.
Excellent documentation skills.
Proven experience leading enterprise initiatives, establishing engineering governance, and mentoring technical leaders.
Comfortable working in Agile environments and collaborating with senior business and technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience with the following technologies
COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and JCL
IBM Utilities, FileAID, Endevor, and SQL
Debuggers, Schedulers, and IOMs
COBOL/Native stored procedures
Mainframe modernization and hybrid mainframe–cloud integration scenarios
Financial brokerage domain knowledge

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end solution design and technology roadmaps across complex, enterprise-scale initiatives, and hold the teams accountable for delivering against them.
Establish engineering standards, delivery governance, and documentation practices, and make sure they are consistently adopted across engagements.
Lead cross-team decisions, modernization efforts, dependencies, and technical risk, escalating and resolving issues before they affect client delivery.
Influence senior client and internal stakeholders, communicating technical direction and trade-offs in terms the business understands.
Mentor and develop technical leaders and engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career guidance that helps our people grow.
Define reusable standards and drive organizational capability improvement, so that each engagement leaves the practice stronger than it found it.
Apply and champion code quality, security, testing, and documentation standards across the teams you lead, and translate requirements into robust, well-supported mainframe solutions.