What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mainframe z/os Architect position at Cynet Systems?
We are looking for a Mainframe z/os Architect for our client in Portland, OR
Job Title: Mainframe z/os Architect
Job Location: Portland, OR
Job Type: Contract
Job Overview:
- 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
- Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of mainframe languages and technologies (COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, REXX,PL/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, Google Cloud Platform), 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.