Lead Platform Engineer

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 well-being
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and a day unique to each team or employee)

The impact you will have in this role:

• In this role, you will be responsible for the installation, configuration, maintenance, and optimization of WebSphere and Liberty, as well as playing a backup role for the other technologies supported by the Mainframe Strategic Engineering team
• You will collaborate with application developers, system administrators, and other IT professionals to ensure a stable and high-performing WebSphere environment
• You will also be asked to evaluate and perform Proof-of-Concepts for strategic product candidates

What You'll Do:

• Perform Lifecycle Management for Mainframe Strategic Engineering products
• Work with the customers/end-users to solve issues and assist with process automation
• Manage the vendor relationships for the products that we apply
• Monitor the status of tickets we have open with the vendor and handle critical issues as required
• Responsible for Incident, Problem, and Change Management for all Mainframe Strategic Engineering products
• Ensure incidents and problems are closed according to domain standards, and all change management requirements are strictly followed
• Represent the team at the various change management meetings on a regular basis
• Evaluate new products in the strategic engineering space
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior

Leadership Competencies for this level include:

• 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 ones 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:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Talents Needed for Success:
• Minimum of 6+ years of relevant experience
• Systems programming skills in SMPE, RACF, and knowledge of MVS system internals
• Experience with WASz and Liberty
• REXX programming experience preferred
• HTML, Java, Java Script, Rexx programming a plus
• Knowledge of z/OS UNIX System Services and MVS environments
• Experience with Mainframe system automation
• Good written and verbal skills
• The ability to multitask and work in a team environment is a must
• Understanding of VTAM and TCP/IP
• Excellent customer service skills to be able to develop mutuallybeneficial relationships with a diverse set of customers
• Experience in a 24x7 global environment with knowledge of system highavailability (HA) design and industry standard disaster recovery practices

Additional Qualification:

• Knowledge of Ansible, Splunk, Snowflake, ZOWE is a plus
• Knowledgeable on Distributed and AWS cloud technologies
• Should be able to understand interlaying technologies (i
• e networking, business applications) and their impact to the business