Project Manager - AS400 / COBOL

Project Manager (AS400 + COBOL)

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Job Title -IBM i AS400 Delivery Technical Manager Offshore

Experience 10-15 years in IBM i AS400 delivery with 3 years in leadership roles (Minimum)

Mandatory Skills :

Resource Management, Stakeholder Management, Benefits Management, Quality Management, Project Planning, Scope & Change Management, Schedule Management, Project Financial Management, Risk / Crisis Management, Project Governance

Job Summary :

We are looking for a seasoned Delivery Technical Manager with strong expertise in IBM i AS400 technologies to lead onsite delivery operations.

The ideal candidate will have a solid technical background in COBOL, DB2, RPG and CL programming along with excellent client interaction skills team management experience and a strong focus on quality delivery and governance

Key Responsibilities :

1). Delivery Ownership Manage end-to-end delivery of IBM ibased applications across multiple business lanes

2). Client Engagement Serve as the primary technical point of contact for the client manages expectations, facilitates communication and handle escalations

3). Team Management Lead onsite offshore teams conduct sprint planning resource allocation and performance reviews

4). Technical Oversight Review technical designs ensure code quality manage deployments and monitor system stability

5). Dependency Management Identify and mitigate cross functional or cross lane dependencies in legacy systems support modularization initiatives without disrupting existing operations

6). Governance Reporting Drive weekly, monthly governance meetings report KPIs delivery health and SLA adherence

7). Innovation Improvements, Propose modernization strategies performance improvements and operational efficiencies within the AS400 ecosystem

Required Skills Experience

1). Strong knowledge of IBM i AS400 COBOL CL RPG and DB2

2). Proven experience in managing large legacy application portfolios

3). Hands-on experience in incident management, change management and production support

4). Familiarity with tools like MDCMS or equivalent and deployment, change management tools

5). Excellent communication stakeholder management and problem solving skills

6). Prior experience working in a global delivery model onsite, offshore is essential

Preferred Qualifications

1). Experience in financial serviceslending domain

2). Knowledge of AgileScrum and traditional SDLC methodologies

3). Exposure to modernization tools or microservices even at concept level

4). PMP ITIL or Scrum certifications nice to have

(ref : hirist.tech)