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The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing projects within the decided-upon budget, timeline, and scope. They will also effectively monitor and present project updates to relevant stakeholders, clients, or project team members.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Production Support & Operations

- Own 24x7 production support for mainframe applications ensuring high availability and stability.
- Lead incident, problem, and change management for mainframe systems.
- Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and permanent fixes for recurring production issues.
- Ensure adherence to SLAs, OLAs, and operational KPIs.
- Oversee batch cycles, online processing, and interfaces with distributed systems.
- Coordinate with infrastructure teams for system upgrades and maintenance.
- Ensure robust disaster recovery (DR) planning, testing, and documentation.

2. Application Development & Enhancements

- Lead mainframe application development and enhancement initiatives.
- Manage full SDLC activities including requirements understanding, design, development, testing, and production deployment.
- Review and approve technical designs, coding standards, and architectures.
- Ensure high-quality deliverables through code reviews, testing strategies, and defect management.
- Support complex initiatives such as regulatory changes, business transformations, and performance improvements.
- Promote reuse, automation, and standardization across development teams.

3. Technical Oversight

- Provide technical leadership across mainframe technologies including:
- COBOL, PL/I, Assembler
- JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM
- MQ Series, Batch Scheduling Tools
- Oversee performance tuning, optimization, and scalability efforts.
- Ensure secure access management using RACF/ACF2/Top Secret.
- Guide application modernization, DevOps adoption, and integration with digital platforms.

4. Team Leadership & Resource Management





- Lead and mentor support and development teams, including onsite/offshore resources.
- Define role clarity, staffing plans, and skill development roadmaps.
- Conduct performance reviews and support career growth of team members.
- Ensure adequate backup and knowledge continuity for critical applications.

5. Stakeholder & Business Engagement

- Act as the primary interface with business stakeholders, product owners, and IT leadership.
- Translate business requirements into actionable technical solutions.
- Provide regular status updates, risk assessments, and delivery metrics.
- Support audits, compliance reviews, and management reporting.

6. Governance, Risk & Compliance

- Ensure adherence to regulatory, security, and audit requirements (SOX, PCI‑DSS, etc.).
- Enforce change governance, documentation standards, and release controls.
- Participate in internal and external audits and remediate findings.
- Maintain application documentation, run books, and traceability.

7. Transformation & Continuous Improvement

- Identify opportunities for automation, cost optimization, and technical debt reduction.
- Support modernization initiatives such as:
- DevOps and CI/CD enablement
- API enablement and hybrid integration
- Gradual re-platforming or refactoring strategies
- Drive continuous process improvement within support and development lifecycle.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

- Robust expertise in IBM Mainframe (z/OS).
- Proven experience in application support AND development.
- Hands-on knowledge of COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS, MQ.
- Experience with batch scheduling tools (Control‑M, CA‑7, etc.).
- Familiarity with performance tuning, debugging, and capacity planning.

Leadership & Soft Skills

- Proven experience managing large, distributed teams.
- Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

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📌 Mainframe Project Lead (India)
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