Senior Mainframe Developer

Company: DTCC

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Posted on: May 08

Are you ready to make an impact at 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 believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits: 

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and 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.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:

TradeSuite is an industry regulated application that provides a single electronic channel to coordinate all post-trade activity among trading parties.  It Simplifies Communication between the parties, Reduces Settlement Risks as it facilitates early agreement on trade details, decreases the Potential for Errors, reduces costs for the client base and eliminates Settlement Complexities.  

In the lifecycle of a trade, TradeSuite sits in the Post trade, Pre settlement space.  Our external clients are Broker Dealers, Investment Managers and other parties that participate in settlement of Trades. The application processes our clients trades, determines the eligibility of these trades to settle at DTCC, either in Trade for Trade, or a Netting model.  Reports are generated for Clients, and eligible US trades are passed to DTCC for Settlement.  Additionally, the application satisfies mandated Industry rules for reporting and provides Trade analytics and client information feeds to a number of applications within the Enterprise. Additionally, 

Clients can submit transactions starting from Sunday 10am EST to the following Saturday 4pm. At which time the application goes down for Maintenance.

A modernization effort has started for the application that will move the mainframe applications to a new modernized platform, mitigating the critical key person risk, associated with maintaining and upgrading the Cobol code base.  

Your Primary Responsibilities: 

• Provides day to day, support, ad-hoc requests and maintenance of designated software and systems.  
• Handles complex application features and technical designs.  
• Assists in accomplishing of technical departmental goals and objectives.
• Responsible for the analysis of project requirements, design and the development of technical specifications. 
• Develops, tests, debugs and implements code for existing and/or proposed business applications. 
• Ability to perform a variety of tasks of varying complexities and work independently in a dynamic (changing) environment. 
• Able to lead a project and/or set of assignments, take ownership, and operate with minimum supervision and guidance.
• Responsible for all procedural and code documentation on assigned projects. 
• May perform the role of Lead/Project Coordinator for projects with limited scope/duration. 
• Excellent understanding of the entire project life cycle.
• Works with Business Users and other leads to transform business requirements into functional specifications / application implementation requirements. 
• Actively participates in the development process, Quality Assurance cycle, and implementation to ensure that standards have been followed. 
• Provides first time Implementation coverage & Support for applicable PSE & Production mainframe code changes. 
• May participate in Production Incident Management calls for supported Application

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Talents Needed for Success:

• Experience coding and debugging Mainframe Platforms. Experience on Distributed Platform is a plus.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of 
• COBOL SQL coding, CICS, debugging and utilities. 
• JCL/PROC, VSAM, SYNCSORT and file based interfaces.
• CICS coding, performance/tuning/design concepts, debugging and utilities 
• ChangeMan
• Strong Relational Database skills: DB2/ SQL and file-based interfaces
• Proficient with Xpediter, Intertest and other mainframe tools 
• Strong knowledge of CA-Scheduler, and IBM utilities
• Knowledge of MQSeries coding in both the batch and CICS environments, MQSeries Infrastructure components, MQSeries utilities such as Mainview, debugging and performance/design concepts.
• Knowledge of XML a plus. 
• Proficient using Microsoft Word, EXCEL, PowerPoint, VISIO

Functional Skills/Knowledge

• Self-starter, and energetic. 
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to work on concurrent projects.
• Thorough knowledge of the SDLC 
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and Jira Tool  
• Proficiency in project estimation, and issue management
• Track record of learning new applications

Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good verbal, written, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Team Player
• Ability to multi-task 
• Demonstrates commitment to delivery of quality results, on time and on budget
• Ability to document procedures 

Business/Industry Knowledge 

• Solid Financial Services Industry exposure

Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization informed. The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. 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.