Software Engineer III - Mainframe

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Plano, TX

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About The Position

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorganChase within Consumer & Community Banking Administration, you will serve as a seasoned member of an agile team designing and delivering secure, stable, scalable technology products. You will carry out critical technology solutions across technical areas and business functions to support the firm’s business objectives.

The role focuses on mainframe batch design and development, including producing architecture and design artifacts, translating high-level designs into technical designs and implementation, and ensuring software meets design constraints and performance requirements. You will create and maintain secure production code, troubleshoot technical problems, analyze data and performance issues, and recommend improvements to application code and system architecture.

You will use enterprise-authorized AI coding-assistance and automation tools in the software development lifecycle, validating generated outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding practices. The role also involves following project lifecycle methods and IT controls, incorporating corporate architecture standards, documenting application specifications and dependencies, participating in design and code reviews, and contributing to engineering communities of practice.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and at least 3 years of applied experience.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools, with the ability to evaluate, validate, and refine generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and resiliency and security expectations.
• Flexibility and ability to react quickly to changing business needs.
• Hands-on experience with COBOL, DB2, MVS Utilities, VSAM, and JCL.
• Hands-on DB2 experience, including creating views, writing stored procedures, and performing code tuning.
• Working experience with tools and products such as TOPAZ/IDZ, SORT, SPUFI, PLATINUM, XPEDITER, FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, FTP, and NDM.
• Knowledge of enterprise SDLC standards and management tools such as JIRA.
• Ability to translate high-level designs into detailed technical designs and implementation, and take ownership of business-critical, complex processes.
• Knowledge of distributed technologies and ability to learn new technologies.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies.
• Exposure to cloud technologies.
• Working experience with Control-M.

Responsibilities

• Execute software design, development, and technical troubleshooting, including solving problems beyond routine approaches.
• Create secure, high-quality production code and maintain algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
• Use enterprise-authorized AI coding-assistance tools for coding, refactoring, testing, and documentation; validate outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards.
• Apply software development lifecycle tools and AI-assisted development and automation capabilities to improve automation outcomes.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications and ensure software development meets design constraints.
• Gather, analyze, synthesize, visualize, and report on diverse data sets to support continuous improvement of software applications and systems.
• Identify hidden problems and patterns in data and use insights to improve coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events exploring emerging technologies.
• Participate in the design and development of mainframe batch processes.
• Participate in design and code reviews, incorporate performance requirements into designs, and provide input on information and data flow.
• Follow project lifecycle methodology and IT control policies and guidelines, and incorporate corporate architectural standards into application design specifications.
• Identify applicable system platforms, components, and dependencies, document application specifications, and analyze performance issues with recommendations for resolution.
• Translate high-level designs into detailed technical designs and implementations, and take ownership of business-critical, complex processes.
• Guide peers in safe and effective use of AI tools within team practices.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package, including base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location.
• Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation in cash and/or forfeitable equity.
• Comprehensive health care coverage.
• On-site health and wellness centers.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Backup childcare.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Mental health support.
• Financial coaching.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed