Mainframe Platform Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities   :

• Challenge, design, implement and oversee tooling and processes to automate and simplify build, development and release activities, reducing waste and driving innovation through a culture of continuous improvement.
• Act as a broad Technical expert in CICS environments and solution delivery on our z / OS IBM Mainframe.
• Provide technical guidance on products and sub-systems residing in the Mainframe environment; CICS environment management (establishing CSD resource definitions of files & transactions for example).
• Collaborate with developers, architects, testers and the wider organisation to smooth the process of building, running and maintaining Mainframe environments and code / config management.
• Assist with incidents to provide challenge, insight and agreement in diagnosis by 3rdparties.
• Monitor live services, identifying opportunities to improve and refine.
• Ensure adherence to governance processes.
• Support the Bank Change and Release Management processes.
• Support an optimised change delivery capability for both Business and IT driven change.
• Actively engage with stakeholders, taking ownership of requirements.
• Mentor and coach junior team members as well as participate in activity which helps transfer knowledge to team members in order to increase and propagate technical skills across the wider banks technical teams.

Skills Required

z / os, Cics, Jcl, Db2, Assembler, Racf