Lead Software Engineer (Mainframe Developer)
Locations:
• RMZ Nexity, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500032, IN
• 3rd Floor, Block A, Global Info City Park, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600096, IN
Job Schedule: Full Time
Salary Range: Commensurate with Experience
FLSA Status: Exempt
Job Description
Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities? Join our DTCC family and expand your expertise while growing into the best version of yourself. This role offers exposure to challenging work, continuous learning, and opportunities to build next-generation financial market solutions in a flexible, hybrid work environment.
Pay and Benefits:
- Competitive base pay and annual incentive
- Comprehensive health, life, and well-being benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Paid Time Off and leaves of absence
- Flexible/Hybrid work arrangements
Why You Would Love This Job:
As part of the IT CSS WRAFT delivery team, you will support core Clearing & Settlement applications for DTC, NSCC, FICC, and solutions across Wealth Management & Insurance Services, along with Master Reference Data systems. You will work within an Agile squad, partner with the Product Owner (PO), and contribute to planning, high-level design, development, and best-practice implementation across applications.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Act as a technical expert for one or more DTCC applications
- Collaborate with Business System Analysts to ensure alignment with functional requirements
- Work with Infrastructure teams to deploy optimal hosting environments
- Tune and optimize application performance
- Research and evaluate solutions aligned with DTCC technology standards
- Integrate risk and control processes into everyday responsibilities
- Apply suitable software development methodologies based on project needs
- Contribute to component design, development, and functional testing
- Support development, testing, fixes, and production activity
- Develop applications and create unit test cases meeting functional/non-functional requirements
- Support continuous integration and continuous delivery initiatives
Qualifications:
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent work experience
Technical Skills Required:
- Expertise in designing and developing Mainframe Online & Batch applications
- Strong hands-on programming with COBOL, CICS, DB2
- Knowledge of MQ and DB2 Connect for integration with distributed systems
- Experience with JCL, catalog procedures, and file types (PS/PDS/VSAM)
- Ability to manage and maintain batch schedules using CA-Scheduler
- Proficiency with Mainframe IDEs such as IDZ
- Experience with version control/configuration tools like Changeman
- Strong skills in reverse-engineering legacy applications involving DB2 and CICS
- Nice to have: CI/CD processes for Mainframe environments
Soft Skills:
- Excellent teamwork and collaboration abilities
- Self-motivated, curious, and eager to learn
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
- Capable of providing guidance and governance during component integration
- Strong organizational, leadership, and problem-solving skills