Lead Mainframe CICS SRE

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.