🚀 Mainframe Lead Software Engineer

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J.P. Morgan

💰 Earn $125.000 – $150.000 / year
  • 📍 Location: Wilmington
  • 📅 Posted: Oct 29, 2025

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Card Technology team, youare 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
  • Works collaboratively with Product Owner and the team to deliver new code using the most efficient design solution approach
  • Performs Database design and development utilizing IMS DB, DB2, DB2 SQL, IBM Websphere MQ Messaging and stored procedures
  • Estimates and plans JIRA stories and document task
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • AdvancedExperience (7 years) in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with IBM-Z/OS Mainframe applications
  • Experience with Mainframedevelopment suite, COBOL, JCL, CICS, MQ, VSAM with primary focus on real-time processes and experience with batch, CICS Main view, REXX, CLIST
  • Proficient in FTP/NDM/File-Mover, CA-7, IBM Utilities, Intertest, File Aid, TSO/ISPF/SDSF,File Manager, Changeman, SORT
  • Experience with debug tools like Xpediter
  • Strong Database design and development skills in IMS DB, DB2, DB2 SQL and Stored Procedures
  • Experience with IBM WebSphere MQ messaging solution
  • Understanding of architecture and design across all systems
  • Experience estimating and planning JIRA stories (Documentation)
  • Passionate about building an innovative culture

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Exposure to distributed Technologies (Java, Kafka, Rest Web Service, XML)
  • Familiarity with AWS
  • Experience in a very large Financial Services technology environment

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