Sr Staff Engineer Mainframes Dallas or Detroit metro

Company: Comerica
Location: Auburn Hills
Posted on: May 6, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Staff Engineer- Mainframes

Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience.

The Senior Staff Engineer for Mainframes is a dynamic role that will require networking with application teams, the business, managed service suppliers and system technical resources. Responsibilities will include documenting and maintaining the correlation of dependencies within the daily critical batch processes and significant inbound and outbound processes that run outside of the mainframe. The Senior Staff Engineer will define action plans and build a roadmap to address process improvements. The role will also be responsible for contributing to mainframe disruption recovery procedures that prioritize the most urgent needs of the business.

Position Responsibilities:
Design & Methodology

Work closely with business units, application teams, infrastructure areas and vendors to identity, review and evaluate the solution requirements.
Investigate and propose strategic fits for virtualization, consolidation and rationalization solution opportunities within the infrastructure or business.
Propose changes to the technical design solutions as applicable.
Evaluate and align strategic fit solutions across platforms and solutions specific to system hardware and software technologies.
Understand, participate, review and influence long term capacity planning and technology investments.

Technical Consulting

Provide client consulting and planning guidance as applicable for moderate to complex projects.
Provide consultation and works closely with other functional infrastructure areas/departments on multiple initiatives to meet common organizational/business goals and objectives.
Participate in and provides consulting to project teams on architectural, design development, integration opportunities, planning of complex systems.

Planning & Organizing

Map requirements into standard services solution, identity opportunities for integrating to existing or reuse technology and provide cost effective solutions for moderate to large highly complex project/programs/initiatives.
Review, identify and manage requirements for moderate to complex solutions and do a cost value, feasibility and risk analysis.

Risk Management

Review, participate, develop and update architectural standards, guiding principles, rationales and strategies.
Evaluate, review and approve highly complex design solutions for business and Infrastructure project or programs or initiatives.

Administration

Keep management informed of status of on activities through accurate, timely, and appropriate reporting.
Actively participate in committees representing the department and/or planning unit.

Position Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Engineering or in a Technology related field, OR equivalent through a combination of education and/or technology experience, OR 12 years of technology experience
6 years of experience identifying technical solutions for complex business problems, identifying the benefits and risks of the solutions and providing recommendations
5 years of Technology experience
This position is not eligible for sponsorship. Must have indefinite employment authorization.

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of mainframe COBOL, JCL, CICS, JIRA, TPX/TSO IBM mainframe, Endevor, Service Now, Outlook, Excel, Word, Visio, SharePoint, File Aid, DB2, VSAM files, and mainframe scheduling tools such as CA7 or RACF"

Work Best Category:
Category C - Days in the office will either be designated days or will vary week to week from 2-5 days

Hours:
8:00am - 5:00pm Monday - Friday

Salary:
To Be Determined Based on Individual Experience

About Comerica
We know our employees are critical to our overall success and we are dedicated to investing in their future. One of the ways we do this is to offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to recognize and reward individual performance, as well support health, well-being, development and security for our colleagues and their family. Total Rewards consists of cash compensation, development and flexible benefit programs designed to meet individual needs today and in the future. Your salary will be commensurate with your work experience and our programs are reviewed regularly to ensure each remain competitive. We are proud to offer benefits such as health and welfare programs, strong retirement benefits, and generous paid time off programs. You and your eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children, can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k) and pension, income protection benefits such as life insurance, AD&D, and supplemental health programs to offset unexpected health care expenses. We also have a variety of time off programs for things like vacation, sick time, disability, and parental leave. Eligibility for some programs varies based on employment status and tenure.

Upon offer, Comerica conducts a comprehensive background and fingerprint check.

NMLS certification requirement: where applicable, a favorable background check screening, credit check, fingerprint check, and NMLS certification is required in accordance with the SAFE Act.

Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned into three major business segments; the Commercial Bank, the Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Comerica's colleagues focus on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico.

Comerica is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer - veterans/individuals with disabilities, committed to workplace diversity.

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