Senior Mainframe Engineer

This position is located at our client site in Pittsburgh. We are looking for a capital markets mainframe engineer who would be responsible not only for writing COBOL programs, but also for ensuring that critical financial transactions are processed accurately, securely, on time, and with full auditability. The role requires a combination of mainframe engineering, production support, financial market knowledge, data processing, and strong collaboration with business and operations teams., Develop and maintain mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and related technologies. . Build enhancements for trade capture, transaction processing, confirmations, settlements, reconciliations, fees, commissions, and accounting. . Translate business and functional requirements into technical designs and program specifications. . Develop batch, online, and file processing components.

Capital markets transaction processing . Support applications handling equities, fixed income, derivatives, foreign exchange, securities lending, or related products. . Process trade lifecycle events such as booking, allocation, confirmation, clearing, settlement, maturity, coupon payments, and corporate actions. . Implement business rules for market calendars, currencies, settlement instructions, pricing, positions, and cash movements. . Support interfaces with trading platforms, custodians, exchanges, clearing houses, depositories, and general ledger systems.

Production support . Monitor critical intraday, end of day, and overnight batch processing cycles. . Investigate job failures, transaction errors, reconciliation breaks, and data quality issues. . Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes. . Participate in on call support for business critical applications. . Coordinate incident resolution with operations, infrastructure, database, middleware, and business teams.

Performance and reliability . Analyze and optimize COBOL programs, DB2 queries, CICS transactions, and batch jobs. . Improve processing speed, system availability, restart capability, and operational resilience. . Manage high transaction volumes during market open, market close, month end, and quarter end processing. . Implement error handling, recovery, audit logging, and rerun procedures.

Capital Markets Domain: Basic to intermediate understanding of Capital Markets, corporate treasury, funding desks, or fixed income trading concepts (e.g., Repo agreements, short term money markets). . Financial Accounting: Familiarity with ledger postings, trade settlement processes, or batch accounting logic. . Regulatory Awareness: Previous exposure to financial regulatory data reporting environments (e.g., Dodd Frank, Basel III, Fed reporting) is a major plus. . Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or a related quantitative field., * Communication

• English
• Mainframe

Pulled from the full job description Tuition reimbursement Paid parental leave Parental leave 401(k) matching Paid time off Paid holidays, CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $70,800.00 $156,700.00.

CGI’s benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include: . Competitive compensation . Comprehensive insurance options . Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan . Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time . Paid parental leave . Learning opportunities and tuition assistance . Wellness and Well being programs

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