Cobol, CICS, DB2 Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Asset & Wealth Management Mainframe team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Write clean, testable and efficient code (Cobol, CICS, DB2) compliant with the best best software development and SDLC practices with utilization of AI tools
• Interact and facilitate strategic discussions with the Omni Product Owner, Software Engineers and Operations
• Work with and understand the Firm’s flows, data models and get a bigger picture of the problem at hand
• Understand requirements and technical design as well as asking the right questions to achieve good quality solutions
• Identify problems and escalate in a timely manner along with proposed solutions

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• 10+ years of coding experience in (Cobol, JCL, VSAM, MQ, Easytrieve, CICS, and DB2)
• Experience working in an Agile environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Mainframe Modernization experience (Topaz, CICD, Code Coverage, Automated testing)
• Experience with S3 Storage and Cloud
• Experience with Core Java/Rest services
• AWS experience