Senior Associate, Mainframe Engineer – Mutual Fund Services
About The Position
As a member of the IT CSS-WRAFT Delivery team, the Senior Associate, Mainframe Engineer is a hands-on technical leader for the mainframe core of Fund/SERV, the industry’s centralized platform for processing and settling mutual fund transactions. The role drives resiliency, performance, and change safety for systems used by hundreds of firms and tens of thousands of securities daily. It strengthens engineering practices across COBOL, DB2, CICS, and MQ; improves test and deployment automation; and captures and curates system knowledge to reduce key-person and legacy-system risk. The engineer partners with Product, Operations, and distributed engineering teams to advance modernization efforts involving APIs, data access, and platform simplification, while improving follow-the-sun support readiness and cross-site collaboration. The role aims to enable faster and safer releases, higher availability, and more predictable delivery for the mutual funds ecosystem.
Requirements
- Minimum of 6 years of related experience.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred and/or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of designing and developing sophisticated online and batch mainframe applications using COBOL, CICS as a transaction processing monitor, and DB2 as an RDBMS.
- Knowledge of MQ and DB2 Connect as interfaces for communicating with distributed web applications.
- Solid understanding of batch jobs using JCL, catalog procedures, and files including PS, PDS, and VSAM.
- Ability to perform and maintain batch scheduling activities using CA-Scheduler.
- Expertise with mainframe application programming IDEs such as IDZ.
- Solid understanding of version control and configuration management tools such as Changeman.
- Expertise in reverse-engineering mainframe applications involving DB2 and CICS.
- Ability to communicate openly and keep colleagues across the organization informed.
- Commitment to keeping specialist-area knowledge up to date and seeking learning opportunities.
- Ability to foster integrity and clarity and to work collaboratively across the organization.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of mutual funds or Mutual Fund Services.
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 software development methodologies appropriate to project needs.
- Contribute expertise to the design of components or individual programs, and participate in construction and functional testing.
- Support development teams with 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 with day-to-day responsibilities, supervise and mitigate risk, and raise concerns appropriately.
- Strengthen engineering practices, test and deployment automation, and system knowledge for the Fund/SERV mainframe.
- Partner across Product, Operations, and distributed engineering to advance modernization and improve support readiness and cross-site collaboration.
- Mentor others and build collaborative teams across the organization.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
- Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location.
- Pension and retirement benefits.
- Paid time off, personal/family care, and other leaves of absence.
- Flexible/hybrid work model with three days onsite and two days remote.
- Professional development investment.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
