Mainframe Programmer – SWIFT & Financial Messaging Platform
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.2 months ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$110k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Support and maintain critical mainframe applications for financial transaction processing and messaging.
- Use COBOL, JCL, DB2, MQ, CICS, and z/OS for application support and maintenance.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and ensure system stability.
- Install, configure, administer, and support IBM Financial Transaction Manager.
- Monitor system and application performance and implement improvements.
- Participate in code reviews, application enhancements, defect fixes, upgrades, and release processes using ChangeMan or equivalent tools.
- Collaborate with operations, infrastructure, database, network, and support teams.
- Create and maintain technical and operational documentation.
- Participate in on-call support, business continuity planning, disaster recovery, and SWIFT Customer Security Programme activities.
- Contribute to reliability, operational efficiency, and modernization initiatives.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on mainframe development and support experience in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, MQ, z/OS, and ChangeMan or equivalent tools.
- Experience installing, configuring, and supporting IBM software products.
- Experience with IBM Financial Transaction Manager or similar financial transaction-processing platforms.
- Strong SQL and DB2 performance-tuning experience.
- Experience troubleshooting complex production issues, conducting root-cause analysis, and optimizing application performance.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-availability financial services environment.
- Preferred: financial services transaction-processing experience and familiarity with SWIFT messaging standards and infrastructure.
- Preferred: IBM Integration Bus or related integration technology experience and knowledge of payment processing, settlements, or banking operations.
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline is preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Base salary of $110,000-$160,000 plus an annual target bonus for the indicated Massachusetts location.
- Benefits include long-term savings, healthcare, income protection, professional development opportunities, and time off.
- The role includes 24x7 environment support and participation in an on-call rotation.
- BBH offers opportunities for mentoring, professional growth, and exposure to SWIFT, financial messaging, and distributed payment infrastructure.
About Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. provides investor services such as custody, fund administration, and asset servicing for asset managers and financial institutions, and offers private banking, investment management, and private equity to families and enterprises. Founded in 1818 and headquartered in New York, it operates as a privately held partnership with offices worldwide, serving clients across roughly 90 markets. Its revenue is driven by service and management fees.