Primary Role & Responsibilities
Role- Mainframe System Architect
Description of role and key responsibilities:
This is a technical, team lead, and hands on role, with a primary focus on design and implementation
of Mainframe Infrastructure changes; although you will be expected to support the Mainframe
Infrastructure Engineering and operations team with complex troubleshooting of issues as required.
You will have experience of working in a high impact, mission critical environments, where service
matters, and exceeding expectations is the norm. You have lead critical projects, thrive in critical
problem solving, and enjoy leading a team working on projects
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Key responsibilities
- The Mainframe System Architect's primary areas of responsibility include ensuring there are
change/transformation against created designs; always ensuring a smooth
transition/handover to Mainframe technology Operations with adjunct supported to the
Operations as needed
- Perform and upgrade of a major product in a production like environment, evaluating any
knowledge of what could wrong including effective testing.
- Defining and documenting Mainframe Infrastructure Architecture Standards and best
- Creation of Low Level Design documents to meet requirements outlined in the High Level
- Creation of detailed Implementation Plans for all Mainframe Infrastructure Engineering
- Procurement activities relating to build and delivery of new services (Project)
- Ensuring the smooth Transition/Handover to Production Support Operations in line with
- Supporting Architecture in creation and upkeep of a Mainframe Infra Delivery Roadmap
- Supporting the Architecture in scoping activities required to produce the High Level Desig
- Supporting Architecture in undertaking Proof of Concept activities
- Ensuring skillsets are relevant and up to date in order to deliver change and provide a high
- Providing escalation support with complex troubleshooting of Major Incidents as required
A mainframe architect's responsibilities include technical design of mainframe infrastructure
projects and ensuring that hardware and software work together. They may also be responsible
for:NTAC:3NS-20
- A minimum 12+ years of hands on experience as Mainframe System Architect within a
- Considerable first-hand experience of design engineering and building resilient and scalable
- The concepts of risk and compliance and how to translate these into effective security
- Appreciation of automation and orchestration and will have experience of scripting with
- Strong understanding of IBM Mainframe technologies
- Familiar with a variety of testing tools and techniques to accurately troubleshoot and resolve
hardware and software.
Technical Skills & Experience:
You will have expert knowledge and experience in several of the following areas:
- zOS System Programming
- Mainframe System administrator activities
- Modernization and migration: Analyzing, designing, and implementing code and database
changes to move mainframe applications to the cloud or a modern cloud-connected
mainframe
- Performance tuning, CoD Provisioning architecture, System Upgrades, Troubleshooting
- Technical hands-on experience on ACF2, SMP/E, VTAM, HMC
- Good to have knowledge on JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS, OPS-MVS
- Scripting language - REXX, CLIST, Python, UNIX Shell, VSAM
- System Management Support with SMP/E, SMF, RMF
- Knowledge on System Services support (storage management, job management, work load
management, data sets, and data set management)
- Awareness on ISV products, install products and services, perform upgrades, IPL, DR/SR
activities
- Knowledge on zOS System libraries, zOS Components and Mainframe system hardware
architecture
- Disaster planning and recovery: Planning for and recovering from disasters
- Mentorship: Applying programming techniques to mentor developers and review code
- Product roadmaps: Maintaining product roadmaps that include modernization, cloud
solutions, and technical debt
- Security and compliance: Ensuring compliance with industry standards for security and audit
- Problem determination and resolution: Identifying and resolving system level problems
- Disaster planning and recovery: Planning for and recovering from disasters
- Mentorship: Applying programming techniques to mentor developers and review codeNTAC:3NS-20
- Modernization and migration: Analyzing, designing, and implementing code and
connected mainframe
- Client support: Providing strong client support and transformations
- Hardware and software: Configuring hardware, installing software products, and
- Security and compliance: Ensuring compliance with industry standards for security and
- Problem determination and resolution: Identifying and resolving system level problems
- Disaster planning and recovery: Planning for and recovering from disasters
- Mentorship: Applying programming techniques to mentor developers and review code
- Product roadmaps: Maintaining product roadmaps that include modernization, cloud
Role- Mainframe System Architect
Should have hands on experience in - MF Infrastructure experience as a Tec lead - L3
Scripting - REXX, Python, Shell script
- zOS System Programming
- Good to have knowledge on JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS, OPS-MVS,VSAM
- Scripting language - REXX, CLIST, Python, UNIX Shell
- System Management Support with SMP/E, SMF, RMF
- Knowledge on System Services support (storage management, job management, work load management, data sets, and data set management)
- Disaster planning and recovery: Planning for and recovering from disasters - App,Support,Operations
- Cloud migration and mainframe modernization
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT related field, and/or equivalent work experience
Excellent verbal and written skills are required
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