Software Engineer III - Mainframe

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking – Consumer & Community Banking Administration, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems

• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems

• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.

• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development

• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems

• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture

• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.

• As a developer you will participate in design and development of Mainframe batches; Participate in design and code reviews, incorporate performance requirements into design, and provide input to information/data flow.
• Comply with project life cycle methodology and adhere to IT control policies and guidelines; Incorporate corporate architectural standards into application design specifications.
• Identify applicable system platform, components, dependencies, document application specifications; Analyze performance issues and resolution recommendations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience 

• Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, test creation, troubleshooting, or documentation) with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security.

• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; ability to guide peers on safe and effective usage within team practices.

• The individual will need to be very flexible with ability to react quickly to changing business needs. 

• Must have hands on experience on COBOL, DB2, MVS Utilities, VSAM and JCL.

• Must have hands on experience on DB2. Must be proficient in creating views, writing stored procedures and performing code tuning.

• Working experience on various products and tools like TOPAZ/IDZ, SORT, SPUFI, PLATINUM, XPEDITER, FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, FTP, NDM.

• Knowledge of enterprise SDLC standard process and management tools like JIRA.

• Should be able to translate high level design to detail technical design and implementation; Take ownership of business-critical and complex processes.

• Must have knowledge of distributed technologies and should be agile in picking up new technologies

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies

• Exposure to cloud technologies

• Working experience of Control-M would be an added advantage.

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs. 

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.  We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process. 

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

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