Senior Mainframe Developer

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

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