Mainframe Software Engineer III - Cobol, CICS, DB, VSAM

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 JPMorgan

Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank in Mainframe technology team, 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.

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develop, enhance, and maintain mainframe applications using COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and related technologies.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to analyze requirements, design solutions, and implement changes.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging to ensure high‑quality deliverables.
• Support production systems, troubleshoot issues, and provide timely resolutions.
• Document technical specifications and maintain system documentation.
• 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
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• Formal training or certification on system design concepts and 3+ years applied experience.
• Hands‑on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages - Experience in software development, with a focus on mainframe technologies.
• Proficiency in mainframe programming languages and tools, including COBOL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM.
• Familiarity with mainframe development environments and batch processing.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

• Experience in the financial services industry, with a strong preference for post‑trade processing.
• Experience with additional mainframe technologies and tools.
• Exposure to non‑mainframe programming languages or platforms (such as Java, .NET, Python, etc.) is a plus, but not required.