Lead Platform Engineer

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:

The Lead Platform Engineer is responsible for design analysis, documentation, testing, installation, implementation, optimization, maintenance and support for the z/OS Operating System, Third Party products, the UNIX System Services environment, Mainframe WebSphere Application Server, and WebSphere Liberty.  You will collaborate with application developers, middleware support, database administrators, and other IT professionals. Requires experience with z/OS, JES2, USS internals, SMP/E installations, and mainframe vendor product knowledge. Skills in creating and managing web sites using both common and advanced Web programming languages is advantageous. 

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform design analysis, documentation, testing, implementation, and support for the mainframe infrastructure environment
• Install and manage mainframe software deployments in a highly granular SYSPLEX environment
• Experience with installing, and maintaining WASz and Liberty 
• Enhance reporting and automation using supported mainframe tools such as JCL, REXX, SAS, SQL, PYTHON and Java/JavaScript
• Complete assignments by due dates, without detailed supervision
• Responsible for Incident, Problem, and Change Management for all assigned products
• Ensure incidents and problems are closed according to domain standards, and all change management requirements are strictly followed
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Participate in team on-call coverage rotation, which includes tactical systems administration and provide weekend support
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.
• Participate in disaster recovery tests (on weekends)
• Actively engage in strategic goals for mainframe engineering, the department and organization
• Provide input and follow-through for continuous improvement to mainframe systems engineering processes and procedures
• Perform level 1 network troubleshooting for mainframe applications

**NOTE:  The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Talents Needed For Success:

• Accountability: Demonstrates reliability by taking necessary actions to continuously meet required deadlines and goals.
• Global Collaboration: Applies global perspective when working within a team by being aware of one's own style and ensures all relevant parties are involved in key team tasks and decisions.
• Communication: Articulates information clearly and presents information effectively and confidently when working with others.
• Influencing: Convinces others by making a strong case, bringing others along to their viewpoint; maintains strong, trusting relationships, while at the same time is comfortable challenging ideas.
• Innovation and Creativity: Thinks boldly and out of the box, generates new ideas and processes, and confidently pursues challenges as new avenues of opportunity.

Education and experience:

• Bachelor's degree or related technical certification (IBM z/OS certificate or training)

Additional Qualifications:

• A minimum of 2-5 years System Programmers experience in an IBM z/OS environment
• REXX programming experience preferred
• HTML, XML, Java, and Java Script programming experience is preferred
• Experience with Mainframe system automation (BMC AMI Ops) is a plus
• Understanding of VTAM and TCP/IP is a plus.
• Knowledge of Ansible, Splunk, Snowflake, ZOWE, SAS is a plus
• Knowledge of Bitbucket, Jira and DevOps orchestration tools are a plus
• Excellent written and verbal skills. 
• The ability to multitask and work in a team environment is a must.
• Excellent customer service skills to be able to develop mutually beneficial relationships with a diverse set of customers.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards is a plus
• Experience in a 24x7 global environment with knowledge of system high availability (HA), design and industry standard disaster recovery practices.

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.

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