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State of NY- IBM Workload Scheduler Administrator || Albany, NY – Hybrid
Job Location:
Job Location:
Albany, GA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
11 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
8 September 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Role: Expert IT Specialist HBITS
DURATION: 30 Months
LOCATION: Albany NY Hybrid
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.
Qualifications
DURATION: 30 Months
LOCATION: Albany NY Hybrid
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.
Qualifications
- 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.
- 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.
Day-to-Day tasks
- 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.
