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At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're 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.\nPay and Benefits:\nCompetitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive\nComprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location\nPension / Retirement benefits \nPaid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.\nDTCC 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). \nThe Impact You will have in this role:\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior Associate, Mainframe Infrastructure Testing Engineer to provide specialized systems knowledge and testing coverage across IBM mainframe services. This position combines systems-level mainframe expertise with environment management engineering. The engineer will assess change impacts, define and execute validation strategies, verify platform and workload readiness, analyze failures, and provide clear evidence-based recommendations for changes affecting critical services.\nThe ideal candidate brings strong z/OS and mainframe ecosystem knowledge and understands that this is a testing position. The priority is deep systems expertise that can be applied to independent validation, with testing processes and DTCC-specific practices developed through onboarding and knowledge transfer.\nYour Primary Responsibilities:\nConduct planning, estimation, test design, execution, defect management, reporting, and stakeholder sign-off for mainframe infrastructure testing engagements.\nAssess application-to-mainframe dependencies and change blast radius to determine affected systems, test scope, sequencing, regression needs, and operational risk.\nDefine risk-based coverage for z/OS, middleware, batch processing, scheduling, security, storage, networking, resiliency, and lower-environment readiness.\nValidate mainframe upgrades and platform changes, including z/OS, middleware, security, encryption, automation, scheduling, and modernization initiatives.\nSupport Capacity Stress Testing and performance testing by evaluating workload behavior, resource utilization, system stability, bottlenecks, and test outcomes.\nValidate non-production environments, including access, connectivity, services, and batch schedules.\nDesign or maintain test coverage for z/OS, Db2, CICS, IBM MQ, mainframe storage, TCP/IP/network services, and enterprise scheduling with clear, traceable test plans, test cases, results, defects, approvals, and audit evidence.\nAnalyze job failures, connectivity issues, middleware errors, performance degradation, and cross-platform integration defects; coordinate troubleshooting with engineering and application teams.\nPartner with mainframe systems engineering, operations, architecture, cybersecurity, storage, network, database, scheduler, application, and change-management teams.\nAutomate repeatable validation and integrate test evidence with source-control, pipeline, workflow, or reporting tools.\nTransfer specialized mainframe knowledge, mentor engineers, and reduce key-person dependency through documentation and cross-training.\n**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **\nQualifications:\nMinimum of 6 years of related mainframe systems engineering, mainframe infrastructure testing, systems programming, production support, performance engineering, or platform architecture experience; 9 or more years preferred for candidates expected to operate as the primary onshore SME.\nHands-on or systems-level depth in IBM z/OS and several related technologies such as JCL, CICS, Db2, IBM MQ, RACF, TCP/IP, storage, or enterprise scheduling.\nDemonstrated experience assessing complex infrastructure changes, identifying dependencies and failure modes, and translating technical risk into a practical test strategy.\nExperience with capacity, stress, performance, extended-run, upgrade, migration, disaster-recovery, or production-readiness testing.\nExperience working across engineering, operations, application, cybersecurity, architecture, and change-management teams.\nBachelor’s degree is preferred, or equivalent relevant experience.\nFinancial services or other highly regulated, high-availability transaction-processing experience strongly preferred.\nTechnical Skills:\nPlatform and architecture: IBM z/OS architecture and operating-system concepts; LPARs; Sysplex and Parallel Sysplex; workload distribution; IPL and system-startup concepts; environment health and dependency analysis.\nTransaction, database, and messaging: Working knowledge of CICS, Db2 for z/OS, and IBM MQ for z/OS, including service dependencies and validation considerations.\nBatch and scheduling: Strong JCL knowledge; JES2/JES3 concepts; batch workload analysis; job and dataset dependencies; restart and recovery; CA-7, ESP, Control-M, or comparable workload automation platforms.\nSecurity and access: RACF concepts, privileged and non-privileged IDs, access controls across production, DR, and test environments.\nNetwork and file transfer: FTP/SFTP, NDM/managed file transfer concepts and cross-platform connectivity.\nStorage and resiliency: DASD and storage concepts, backup and recovery, replication, failover, disaster recovery, business continuity, and resiliency validation.\nTesting and diagnostics: Risk-based test strategy, performance and capacity testing, extended-run testing, upgrade testing, defect analysis, expected return-code verification, logs and system messages, and evidence-based sign-off.\nAutomation: Ability to use scripting or automation to improve repeatability. Experience with REXX, Python, Shell, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, or comparable tools is beneficial.\nTalents Needed for Success:\nMainframe capacity stress testing and performance analysis.\nExtended-run or endurance testing of business-critical workloads.\nESP migration or comparable scheduler migration and validation.\nRIT Lab, DR, or lower-environment readiness and refresh validation.\nz/OS and middleware upgrade testing.\nDevelopment of reusable mainframe test cases, validation scripts, dashboards, or evidence-collection automation\nSystems thinking and the ability to connect mainframe services, application workloads, dependencies, failure modes, and business impact.\nStrong troubleshooting and analytical skills, with disciplined attention to return codes, logs, schedules, system messages, and test evidence.\nAbility to work independently as a trusted mainframe testing SME while collaborating effectively across technology organizations.\nClear written and verbal communication, including concise presentation of testing status, risks, defects, and recommendations to technical and leadership audiences.\nCommitment to knowledge transfer, documentation, engineering quality, resiliency, accountability, and continuous improvement.\nThe salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. 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. 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