Job Title: Mainframe Engineer
Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President
Location: Cary, NC
Who we are:
In short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank’s technology solution, developing applications for key business areas.
Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands-on engineering culture. Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally. Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.
Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, Deutsche Bank opened its US technology center in Cary, North Carolina in 2009. Learn more about us here.
Overview
You will help design, build, and modernize mission critical systems that power Deutsche Bank’s core business operations. You work hands on with enterprise mainframe platforms while partnering with business and technology teams to keep applications stable, secure, and evolving. You play a key role in strengthening reliability today while supporting long term modernization and migration initiatives. This is an opportunity to deepen your technical expertise while contributing to platforms that operate at global scale.
What We Offer You
- A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration
- A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days
- Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
- Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits
- Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, test, and maintain core mainframe applications, across both batch and online processing, that support critical business functions and ensure reliable daily operations
- Analyze and resolve production issues quickly and safely, collaborating with support and infrastructure teams while enhancing performance, stability, and data integrity across enterprise databases
- Lead and support modernization and migration initiatives that evolve legacy systems toward scalable, future‑ready architecture and improve long‑term resiliency
- Work closely with business stakeholders to understand functional requirements, translate them into scalable engineering solutions, and act as a subject-matter expert across payments, settlements, and core banking workflows
- Provide business-facing support by answering functional process queries, interpreting transaction flows, and extracting required data from application databases for analysis or troubleshooting
- Partner with internal compliance and external audit teams to supply required evidentiary artifacts, documentation, and system insights, ensuring solutions meet regulatory and control standards
Skills You’ll Need
- Hands on experience developing and supporting applications on IBM z/OS environments
- Strong proficiency with COBOL and enterprise batch and transaction processing
- Experience working with mainframe databases and data structure
- Ability to troubleshoot production issues and deliver clear, well documented solutions
- Strong communication skills and comfort working in collaborative, cross functional team
- Ability to communicate complex technical topics in business-friendly language as well as experience analyzing business workflows and understanding financial domain logic.
Skills That Will Help You Excel
- Curiosity and motivation to modernize legacy platforms and learn new technologies
- A disciplined, quality focused mindset with attention to detail and risk awareness
- Experience supporting regulated or highly controlled environments
- Familiarity with modern development practices, automation, or DevOps approaches
- A proactive approach to problem solving and continuous improvement
Expectations
It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the Cary office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.
Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.
The salary range for this position in Cary is $100,000 to $153,000. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.
Deutsche Bank Benefits
At Deutsche Bank, we recognize that our benefit programs have a profound impact on our colleagues. That’s why we are focused on providing benefits and perks that enable our colleagues to live authentically and be their whole selves, at every stage of life. We provide access to physical, emotional, and financial wellness benefits that allow our colleagues to stay financially secure and strike balance between work and home. Click here to learn more!
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We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Click these links to view Deutsche Bank’s Equal Opportunity Policy Statement and the following notices: EEOC Know Your Rights; Employee Rights and Responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act; and Employee Polygraph Protection Act.
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What We Do
At Deutsche Bank, we give original thinkers the space and support they need to shine. Merging local knowledge with global vision, in-depth insight with industry-leading digital expertise, if you’re an innovator by nature, we can help you to unleash your potential. We see things differently at Deutsche Bank – and we’re proud of our fresh perspective. Today, we’re driving growth through our strong client franchise, investing heavily in digital technologies, prioritising long-term success over short term gains, and serving society with ambition and integrity. Wherever your interests lie – in investment banking, trading, private wealth, asset management, retail banking - or many of the infrastructure functions that support them – you’ll discover resources, training and opportunities designed to keep you ahead of the curve. Intelligence has no boundaries: we welcome high-achieving, talented individuals from any background. If you’re full of imagination, enjoy solving problems and respond positively to complex challenges, discover a career to look forward to and join us!
