Software Engineer III - Mainframe

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.