Description

Job Description

The Company is currently hiring for a Senior Mainframe Systems Engineer. This individual will lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of critical mainframe systems while driving platform improvements, ensuring high availability and performance, and championing best practices within a geographically dispersed data center environment. Our ideal candidate will have 5+ years of hands-on experience in a z/OS mainframe environment and a strong track record of leading complex projects, troubleshooting critical issues, and mentoring junior engineers.

• Responsible for analyzing, designing, coding, testing and implementing technical solutions, as well as providing general production monitoring and support, meeting defined scope, target dates and budgets with minimal or no defects
• Collaborate with stakeholders across IT, product, analytics, and business teams to gather requirements and provide technical solutions that meet organizational needs
• Monitor work against production schedule and provide progress updates and report any issues or technical difficulties to leadership on a regular basis
• Document technical processes and procedures, and participate in technical reviews and knowledge sharing sessions
• Collaborate on the design and implementation of architecture to ensure solution alignment to enterprise goals and standards
• Mentor other associate and intermediate technical engineers as needed
• Perform technical analysis and provide insights to support decision-making across various departments

Required:

• 5 years of experience with IBM z/Series mainframe technology, including system maintenance, Performance and tuning, and troubleshooting hardware/software issues
• 5 years of technical problem solving, solution implementation, team/project collaboration
• Strong z/OS Mainframe Systems Programming background, including SMP/E, DB2, IMS, and CICS
• Project management skills and experience - able to meet defined scope, target dates, and budgets 
• Able to work off-hours and weekends and scheduled, 24x7x365 on-call responsibilities 

Preferred:

• 10 years of experience with IBM z/Series mainframe technology
• Experience working with vendors to resolve software and systems issues 
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate