HBITS 07-14824 IT Specialist Expert

Project/Program:
NYS e-MPIRE Tax Processing System

This position will work on tax modernization in the platforms operations team as a part of the scheduling and automations team. Tax modernization is a multi-year project focused on modernizing the IT infrastructure and applications for the NYS tax department. One of the key components of that is modernizing the day-to-day operations through scheduling and automation.

Day-to-Day Tasks:
Primary Responsibilities
Administer maintain and support the IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) environment on IBM mainframe systems.
Monitor daily workload processing to ensure scheduled jobs job streams and dependencies execute successfully and within established service levels.
Configure schedule and manage batch workloads across enterprise applications and platforms.
Analyze and resolve job failures scheduling conflicts resource contention issues and workload bottlenecks.
Perform workload forecasting capacity planning and schedule optimization to improve operational efficiency.
Create modify and maintain job definitions calendars run cycles workstations and job streams.
Support production batch processing including incident response troubleshooting and recovery activities.
Coordinate with application teams system programmers database administrators and business units to implement scheduling requirements.
Manage workload dependencies between mainframe and distributed systems.
Develop and maintain scheduling standards procedures and operational documentation.
Participate in disaster recovery planning testing and workload restoration activities.
Ensure compliance with organizational security change management and audit requirements.
Utilize IBM Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) to monitor manage and administer enterprise workloads.
Configure and maintain DWC dashboards monitoring views alerts and reporting functions.
Troubleshoot workload execution issues using DWC monitoring and diagnostic tools.
Support end users and operations staff in the use of DWC scheduling and monitoring capabilities.
Implement and maintain workload automation policies using DWC administrative functions.
Generate workload status performance and operational reports for management and technical teams. Technical Support and Administration
Perform installation configuration maintenance and upgrades of IBM Workload Scheduler components.
Manage scheduling agents communication links and workload automation infrastructure.
Support integration between IWS and enterprise applications databases and middleware platforms.
Implement workload automation best practices to improve reliability availability and performance.
Conduct root cause analysis for recurring scheduling issues and recommend corrective actions.
Participate in system testing application deployments and production implementation activities.

Mandatory Qualification:
IT Specialist -
Works in the field of Information Technology experienced in the usage and support of a collection of development platforms technical architectures or business applications and products that run on those platforms - beyond that of a Programmer.

Expert -
84 Months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

Requested Qualifications:
- 84 months Experience using administering IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS/Tivoli Workload Scheduler) in a z/OS mainframe environment.
- 84 months Experience using and administering IBM Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) for workload administration and monitoring.
- 84 Months Experience Knowledge of IBM z/OS operations JCL TSO/ISPF SDSF and batch processing concepts.
- 60 Months Experience workload automation concepts including calendars dependencies critical paths and event-driven scheduling.
- 60 Months Experience troubleshooting batch processing failures and performing production support.

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