What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Mainframe CICS SRE position at Q1 Technologies, Inc.?
About the Role
Job Title: Lead Mainframe CICS SRE Duration- Fulltime Permanent Location: (Cary, NC Onsite From Day 1)
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design and implementation of mainframe solutions aligned to business and technology strategy.
- Provide technical leadership to mainframe development, operations and modernization teams.
- Partner with business, application and infrastructure stakeholders to define requirements and deliver cost-effective solutions.
- Establish mainframe intake and change processes for new workloads and tune CICS, MQ and z/OS Connect services.
- Review CICS/MQ and z/OS Connect telemetry and traces to improve availability, security and performance.
- Troubleshoot and resolve CICS/MQ incidents; participate in release, change, incident and problem-management processes.
- Create and maintain architecture standards, roadmaps, blueprints and governance.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and drive continuous improvement and modernization.
- Lead cross-functional teams and multiple complex initiatives.
- Communicate effectively with business stakeholders, application teams, infrastructure teams and enterprise architects.
- Apply strategic thinking, analytical problem solving, stakeholder management and architectural governance.
Required Skills
- IBM z/OS, COBOL, CICS, z/OS Connect and IBM MQ
- CICS/MQ and z/OS Connect performance tuning, telemetry and trace analysis
- Mainframe modernization, integration and migration
- Mainframe intake, change, release, incident and problem management
- Cloud integration, Linux, OpenShift, DevOps and automation using Red Hat Ansible for IBM Z, Ansible and Python
- High availability, security, scalability and hybrid architecture
Preferred Skills
- Financial services or insurance industry experience preferred.
- Relevant IBM System Architect or TOGAF certification preferred.