Mainframe Architect

Portland, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Position: Mainframe Architect
Location: Portland OR (Hybrid - 3 Days onsite)
Job Type: Contract

Architectural Design and Strategy: Lead the architectural design and strategy for complex mainframe systems including core components like z/OS Db2 CICS Storage Security and MQ. This involves creating conceptual logical and physical architectural views.

System Performance and Optimization: Monitor and analyze system performance to identify bottlenecks and perform tuning for optimal efficiency and capacity.
Availability and Security: Ensuring system scalability high availability security and the implementation of backup and recovery plans.
Modernization and Integration: Develop and implement strategies to modernize legacy applications and integrate mainframe environments with modern technologies such as cloud platforms microservices and APIs. This often includes migrating workloads and data across platforms.
Technical Leadership and Guidance: Provide technical leadership mentorship and guidance to development and infrastructure teams ensuring best practices and coding standards are followed.
Troubleshooting and Support: Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues and provide high-level (L3) support for middleware and other system components.
Documentation and Governance: Write technical documentation including design specifications processes procedures and system configurations. They also develop and enforce architecture governance procedures.
Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with internal teams external vendors and business stakeholders to understand requirements communicate technical decisions and ensure solutions meet business needs

Key Skill Areas

Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of mainframe languages and technologies (COBOL JCL CICS DB2 VSAM REXXPL/I Assembler) and operating systems (z/OS).
Utilities & Tools: Proficiency with JCL utilities (SORT IEBGENER) testing/debugging tools (IBM DEBUG tool Xpeditor) and change management tools (Endeavor SCLM).
Modern Technologies: Familiarity with modern IT concepts like cloud computing (AWS Azure GCP) containers (Docker Kubernetes) DevOps toolchains (Jenkins GitHub) and Agile methodologies.
Problem-Solving: Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving abilities to troubleshoot complex issues and design effective solutions.
Strategic Planning: Ability to assess business impact of specific technologies/strategies and create long-term roadmaps for IT optimization and transformation.

Position: Mainframe Architect Location: Portland OR (Hybrid - 3 Days onsite) Job Type: Contract Architectural Design and Strategy: Lead the architectural design and strategy for complex mainframe systems including core components like z/OS Db2 CICS Storage Security and MQ. This involves creating c...

Position: Mainframe Architect
Location: Portland OR (Hybrid - 3 Days onsite)
Job Type: Contract

System Performance and Optimization: Monitor and analyze system performance to identify bottlenecks and perform tuning for optimal efficiency and capacity.
Availability and Security: Ensuring system scalability high availability security and the implementation of backup and recovery plans.
Modernization and Integration: Develop and implement strategies to modernize legacy applications and integrate mainframe environments with modern technologies such as cloud platforms microservices and APIs. This often includes migrating workloads and data across platforms.
Technical Leadership and Guidance: Provide technical leadership mentorship and guidance to development and infrastructure teams ensuring best practices and coding standards are followed.
Troubleshooting and Support: Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues and provide high-level (L3) support for middleware and other system components.
Documentation and Governance: Write technical documentation including design specifications processes procedures and system configurations. They also develop and enforce architecture governance procedures.
Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with internal teams external vendors and business stakeholders to understand requirements communicate technical decisions and ensure solutions meet business needs

Key Skill Areas

Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of mainframe languages and technologies (COBOL JCL CICS DB2 VSAM REXXPL/I Assembler) and operating systems (z/OS).
Utilities & Tools: Proficiency with JCL utilities (SORT IEBGENER) testing/debugging tools (IBM DEBUG tool Xpeditor) and change management tools (Endeavor SCLM).
Modern Technologies: Familiarity with modern IT concepts like cloud computing (AWS Azure GCP) containers (Docker Kubernetes) DevOps toolchains (Jenkins GitHub) and Agile methodologies.
Problem-Solving: Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving abilities to troubleshoot complex issues and design effective solutions.
Strategic Planning: Ability to assess business impact of specific technologies/strategies and create long-term roadmaps for IT optimization and transformation.