Senior Manager, Mainframe Development

The Senior Manager, Mainframe Development provides strategic, technical, and people leadership for a team responsible for developing, maintaining, automating, and optimizing critical mainframe software and infrastructure solutions. This role combines hands-on mainframe expertise with end-to-end accountability for team performance, technical direction, project execution, operational reliability, security, and continuous improvement. The Senior Manager partners across engineering, security, operations, audit, and external vendors to deliver scalable solutions aligned with business objectives.

What You'll Do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of mainframe engineers and technical professionals, setting clear priorities, performance expectations, and development goals.
• Own the technical strategy, roadmap, and execution for mainframe development, automation, product lifecycle management across z/OS environments.
• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of mainframe software, including onboarding, design, development, installation, configuration, testing, deployment, maintenance, upgrades, patching, enhancements, and decommissioning.
• Provide technical direction for complex z/OS and Parallel Sysplex environments, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
• Lead project planning and delivery, managing scope, priorities, dependencies, risks, resources, and stakeholder communications to achieve quality outcomes.
• Drive complex incident investigation, root-cause analysis, and cross-team or vendor resolution to minimize business risk and downtime.
• Ensure effective change management, access controls, configuration standards, release consistency, vulnerability remediation, documentation, and audit readiness.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards, runbooks, centralized knowledge repositories, process flows, and technical documentation.
• Use operational and engineering data to identify improvement opportunities, strengthen reliability and performance, and reduce operating costs.
• Build strong partnerships and develop customer engagement opportunities with clients
• Promote a culture of accountability, operational excellence, innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in and ensure appropriate coverage for on-call support and critical incident resolution.

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching technical talent, managing performance, building team capability, and leading through ambiguity and change.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical programs and projects, balance multiple priorities, manage risk, and deliver outcomes aligned with business objectives.
• Extensive experience supporting complex z/OS and Parallel Sysplex environments, including development, maintenance, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and issue resolution.
• Strong technical proficiency in JCL, TSO, REXX, Python, and SQL, with experience using automation and integration tooling.
• Knowledge of mainframe security, compliance, access governance, vulnerability remediation, change controls, and audit readiness.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools for observability, development, incident analysis, anomaly detection, documentation, and automation.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, escalation, and solution evaluation skills, with the ability to translate complex technical issues into clear business implications and decisions.
• Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of collaborating across multidisciplinary teams and external vendors.
• Commitment to operational excellence, disciplined engineering practices, continuous improvement, and high-quality technical documentation.

Leadership Expectations

• Set a clear vision and translate strategy into measurable priorities, roadmaps, and team commitments.
• Create an inclusive, accountable environment where associates can grow, contribute, challenge assumptions, and deliver their best work.
• Make informed decisions using technical expertise, operational data, business context, and effective risk management.
• Influence across organizational boundaries and bring teams together to solve complex problems and deliver shared outcomes.
• Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and executive stakeholders.

Annual salary range for this position is between $140,000 - $190,000 gross before taxes.