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Senior AssociateJob Description & Summary
At PwC our people in infrastructure focus on designing and implementing robust secure IT systems that support business operations. They enable the smooth functioning of networks servers and data centres to optimise performance and minimise downtime.Job Requirements and Preferences:
Basic Qualifications:
Minimum Degree Required:
Bachelor Degree Minimum Years of Experience:
7 year(s) PwCs Cloud Computing and Networking practice helps our clients transform their business through innovative technology solutions and effective IT Service Management. Part of that journey includes helping our clients enable innovation reinventing their customer experience and exploring new markets. You will be immersed in a variety of different projects groups and locations while getting inspired through your community to grow as an individual as well as a team. Our diverse client service teams encourages outofthebox thinking problem solving great team mentality and a curiosity for understanding the latest in technology.
Job Description
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purposeled and valuesdriven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines geographies and career paths and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers now and in the future.
As a Senior Manager youll work as part of a team of problem solvers helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to . PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all including quieter members of the team.
Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
Anticipate stakeholder needs and develop and discuss potential solutions even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
Navigate the complexities of crossborder and/or diverse teams and engagements.
Initiate and lead open conversations with teams clients and stakeholders to build trust.
Uphold the firms code of ethics and business conduct.
Required Knowledge and Skills: Can Edit. Please Note: 500 Character limit
Preferred Qualifications:
Certification(s) Preferred:
BMC Certified Professional BMC AMI ControlM for Mainframe additional mainframerelated product certifications Preferred Knowledge/Skills: Can Edit Please Note: 500 Character limit Demonstrates thorough abilities success with managing the identification and addressing of client needs including:
xperience with CA Ops AMI Ops z/OS JCL REXX TSO and ISPF Endevour;
Experience with the install and configuration of OEM software products IBM and CABroadcom products;
Technical leadership experience as a Solution Architect or Technical Architect (or similar);
Manage engagements as a trusted technical advisor to clients and project members to solve complex technical challenges;
Thought leadership with extensive knowledge in mainframe architecture product solutions and services;
Experience in the following technical areas: Agile / Scrum Application Architecture COBOL Database Schema Management Workload Scheduler and ControlM;
Demonstrates high level of expertise analyzing mainframe systems to formulate plans to improve migrate or modernize the systems;
Lead requirements gathering sessions with customer stakeholders to facilitate the documentation of technical requirements for mainframe system / product solutions;
Handson experience working with z/OS COBOL and Integration middleware technologies such as zOS Connect Solace Kafka and message protocols/formats such as MQ JMS SOAP JSON XML.
Design and architect highly available mainframe solutions using the BMC product suite including BMC AMI BMC Cost Analyzer and BMC ControlM;
Develop migration strategies and plans for transitioning from legacy mainframe systems to modernized environments including data migration strategies;
Handson experience in mainframe solutions including operating system subsystems (Db2 CICS MQ etc. storage security and hardware; and
Familiarity with mainframe analysis tools: SML Cast etc.;
Experience in IT operations Job Scheduling and Mainframe Systems Automation
Mainframe Modernization Senior Associate (Solution Engineer)
Job Requirements and Preferences: Basic Qualifications: Minimum Degree Required: Do not edit Bachelor Degree Minimum Years of Experience: Do not edit 3 year(s) Required Knowledge and Skills: Can Edit. Please Note: 500 Character limit
Demonstrates proven thorough knowledge and success as a supporting project team member within a professional services firm or large enterprise including:
Supporting engagements as a trusted technical resource to clients to implement complex technical solutions establishing credibility with individuals within client organization;
Experience in the following technical areas: Application Architecture COBOL Database Schema Management Mainframe Workload Scheduler and ControlM;
Experience in configuring mainframe systems to improve migrate or modernize the system;
Experience in documentation of technical requirements / specifications based on targetstate technical architecture design for mainframe systems
Experience implementing highly available mainframe solutions using the BMC product suite including BMC AMI BMC Cost Analyzer and BMC ControlM;
Experience migrating legacy mainframe systems to modernized environments based on predefined migration strategies and plans inclusive of data migration;
Handson experience building mainframe solutions including: operating system subsystems (Db2 CICS MQ etc. storage security and hardware;
Experience leveraging mainframe analysis tools: SML Cast etc.; and
Handson experience working as an engineer in IT operations Job Scheduling and Mainframe Systems Automation
Preferred Qualifications:
Certification(s) Preferred:
BMC Certified Associate BMC AMI ControlM for Mainframe additional mainframerelated product certifications
Preferred Knowledge/Skills: Demonstrates thorough abilities success with managing the identification and addressing of client needs including:
Experience implementing solutions with the following technologies: CA Ops AMI Ops z/OS JCL REXX TSO ISPF Endevour;
Experience with the install and configuration of OEM software products IBM and CABroadcom products; and
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MVS Mainframe Operations Solution Architect
Role Summary
The Architect will drive the definition and maintenance of the structure of mainframe migration/conversion programs to develop as necessary solution architecture and program definitions.
Focus Area (Competency)
Application Technology
Required Skills
1. AGILE SCRUM (CSP CSPO)
2. APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE
3. COBOL
4. DATABASE SCHEMA MANAGEMENT (E.G. DB DEPLOY FLYWAY)
5. MAINFRAME
6. IBM MAINFRAME
7. WORKLOAD SCHEDULER
8. CONTROLM
Role Description
Description And Requirements
The Mainframe Architect performs a lead role in assessing and analyzing capabilities business and technical requirements and customer business drivers. The Architect is required to have experience in defining and maintaining the structure of mainframe migration/conversion programs to develop as necessary solution architecture and program definitions. In addition the Architect determines customer environmental and personnel suitability readiness to proceed and provides best practice recommendations.
As an Architect you will provide guidance for migration and implementation approaches strategy integration deployment and adoption of best practices to ensure customer success. This role works along with the project team to provide excellent service for our clients.
Responsibilities
Thought leadership with extensive knowledge in mainframe architecture product solutions and services.
Performs complex analysis of customer projects based upon contractual requirements and delivery deadlines. Ensures the customer is prepared and ready for agreed start dates and that all environments are ready for project implementation.
Provides valuable actionable guidance and defines success factors early in the delivery cycle to set up a successful customer conversion and value realization roadmap.
Ensure success factors are reviewed and maintained periodically through the delivery lifecycle and ensure they meet the performance reliability scalability and availability standards.
Development and maintenance of relationships with conversion code programmers via recurring status calls.
Lead scope definition sessions with customer stakeholders and facilitate the documentation of technical requirements to define the solution architecture enable the installation and conversion of identified mainframe systems / products.
Experience in migrating mainframe systems (including products)
Experience in analyzing mainframe systems to formulate plans to improving or migrating the systems.
Handson experience in mainframe solutions including: operating system subsystems (Db2 CICS MQ etc. storage security and hardware.
Success Behaviors
Ability to work independently and provide quality output with minimal supervision/direction.
Think strategically about business product services and technical challenges.
Understands and can articulate how the solutions align to the Customers needs.
Communicates and orchestrates actions effectively for project success (e.g. proactively mitigates risks before issues impact the project).
Escalates appropriately for issues impacting opportunities project delivery or Customer satisfaction following process and policy.
Builds and maintains strong relationships with internal and external key stakeholders.
Proven track record of managing and delivering mainframe solutions and services
Qualifications /Experience/Certifications
Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
Subject matter expertise in IT operations Job Scheduling and MVS Systems Automation
Skills in CA Ops AMI Ops Z/os JCL REXX TSO ISPF Endevour
10 years of progressive architect experience in:
Designing architectures for highly available highly scalable and highly secure mainframe systems.
Handson experience in mainframe solutions including operating system subsystem (Db2m CICS MQ etc. storage security and hardware.
Analyzing mainframe systems to formulate plans to improve or migrate the systems (including products).
Installing and upgrading MVS mainframe products
Qualifications/Experience/Certifications (Desirable)
Strong experience with install and configuration of OEM software products BMC IBM and CABroadcom products
GitHub
Jenkins
Understanding of different software development methodologies (Waterfall Agile etc.
Databases Oracle SQL Server MongoDb
ControlM product certification
ITIL v3 Foundation
Overall Experience
Min of 5 years
Education (if blank degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:Certifications (if blank certifications not specified)
Required Skills
Optional Skills
Accepting Feedback Accepting Feedback Active Listening Analytical Thinking Architectural Engineering Cloud Virtualization Communication Continuous Deployment Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Creativity Data Infrastructure DevOps Practices Embracing Change Emotional Regulation Empathy Hardware Troubleshooting Inclusion Infrastructure Architecture Infrastructure Management Infrastructure Monitoring Infrastructure Optimization Infrastructure Services Infrastructure Support Intellectual Curiosity IT Infrastructure 18 moreDesired Languages (If blank desired languages not specified)
Travel Requirements
Not SpecifiedAvailable for Work Visa Sponsorship
NoGovernment Clearance Required
YesJob Posting End Date
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Senior IC
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