Senior Associate, Mainframe Engineer – Mutual Fund Services

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a member of DTCC’s IT CSS-WRAFT Delivery team, the Senior Associate, Mainframe Engineer will provide hands-on technical leadership for the mainframe core of Fund/SERV, the industry’s centralized platform for processing and settling mutual fund transactions. The role focuses on strengthening resiliency, performance, and change safety across systems used by hundreds of firms and tens of thousands of securities daily.

The engineer will strengthen engineering practices for COBOL, DB2, CICS, and MQ; improve testing and deployment automation; and capture and curate system knowledge to reduce key-person and legacy-system risk. The role partners with Product, Operations, Infrastructure, Business System Analysts, and distributed engineering teams to advance modernization efforts involving APIs, data access, and platform simplification. It also supports follow-the-sun readiness and cross-site collaboration, with the goal of faster and safer releases, higher availability, and more predictable delivery for the mutual funds ecosystem.

DTCC offers a flexible hybrid model with three days onsite and two days remote. Onsite days include Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and a third day determined by the team or employee. The posting lists competitive compensation, a base pay and annual incentive, health and life insurance and well-being benefits based on location, pension or retirement benefits, and paid time off and personal/family care and other leaves.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience.
• Knowledge of designing and developing sophisticated online and batch mainframe applications using COBOL, CICS as a transaction processing monitor, and DB2 as a relational database management system.
• Knowledge of MQ and DB2 Connect as interfaces for communicating with distributed web applications.
• Solid understanding of batch jobs using JCL, catalog procedures, and PS, PDS, and VSAM files.
• Ability to perform and maintain batch scheduling activities using CA-Scheduler.
• Expertise with mainframe application programming IDEs, including 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 keep knowledge current, seek learning opportunities, mentor others, build collaborative teams, and communicate openly 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 or 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.
• Improve test and deployment automation and capture and curate system knowledge.
• Partner across Product, Operations, and distributed engineering to advance modernization, follow-the-sun support readiness, and cross-site collaboration.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and an annual incentive.
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location.
• Pension or retirement benefits.
• Paid time off, personal/family care, and other leaves of absence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior