Manager IT, Core Engineering Applications

Job Overview

PenFed is hiring a Manager IT, Core Engineering Applications to work onsite at our Tysons, Virginia; Omaha, Nebraska or San Antonio, Texas location.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage programmers delivering design, development, implementation, and production support for legacy and modernized solutions.
• Own reliability, performance, change control, and incident management for mainframe applications, jobs, datasets, and integrations.
• Cook up close with managers and architects for Mule and Salesforce to plan integrations, data flows, and operational runbooks.
• Engage business and IT stakeholders across the lifecycle to align scope, clarify requirements, and secure successful outcomes.
• Provide daily/weekly status on milestones, risks, issues, and accomplishments tailored for IT leadership and business partners.
• Ensure work aligns with company strategy, IT standards, security policies, and audit/compliance requirements.
• Promote modernization opportunities (e.g., job optimization, error handling, observability) without compromising system stability.
• Manage Concept, Planning, Requirements, Procurement, Build, Test, Implement, and Closure phases with traceability and documentation.
• Identify, log, and drive resolution for risks/issues; implement corrective actions to protect scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
• Facilitate requirements, constraints, and assumptions; maintain design, runbooks, job schedules, recovery procedures, and support models.
• Track schedule, performance, quality, and budget with appropriate tools; adjust plans and resources to meet objectives.
• Support estimation and capacity planning to set realistic timelines and staffing needs.
• Maintain transparent, timely communication across IT teams and stakeholders; ensure decisions and changes are well documented.

Qualifications

• Minimum eight (8) years writing/supporting COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve; minimum three (3) to five (5) years managing teams as a manager or above.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience with COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, and REXX; Assembler knowledge is a plus.
• Strong understanding of datasets/file structures (e.g., VSAM, sequential), batch scheduling, utilities, and job control.
• Experience leveraging AI coding assistants (e.g., Copilot) for code authoring, refactoring, test generation, and documentation; applied responsibly with code review rigor, security, and compliance; considered a plus.
• Proven leadership of IT teams delivering complex initiatives and production support for mission critical systems.
• Familiarity with SDLC, change management, release management, observability, and incident/problem management.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with Mule and Salesforce teams on integrations, data exchange, and operational support.
• Excellent communication, organizational skills, and stakeholder management; able to work through ambiguity and make informed decisions.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position will supervise employees.

Licenses and Certifications

No licenses or certifications needed for this role.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.

Travel

Limited travel to various worksites is required.

Pay Transparency

The anticipated starting salary range for this role is $84,700.00 - $179,546.00

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans.
• Paid time off.
• Family-friendly benefits like paid parental leave, care support, and fitness center access.
• Financial wellness features like a 401(k) match, employee loan discounts, and fully paid life and disability coverage.
• Growth features like education assistance, community involvement, and volunteer opportunities.

Purpose

Helping members achieve their dreams since 1935.

Equal Employment Opportunity

PenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same.