Job Summary

Job Title- Mainframe Technical Operations Governance Modernization, AVP

Location- Pune, India

Role Description

- The Mainframe Technical Operations Governance Modernization Lead is responsible for the governance, operational stability, modernization strategy, and lifecycle management of enterprise mainframe platforms. The role ensures operational requirements while driving modernization initiatives that transform legacy mainframe environments.

- The individual acts as the bridge between infrastructure teams, application teams, vendors, and senior management

Your key responsibilities

- Define and maintain Mainframe Governance Framework, RACI, policies, standards, and procedures.

- Lead governance forums with infrastructure and vendor teams.

- Establish KPI, KRI, SLA, and operational health reporting.

- Strong expertise in ITIL-based service management, change management, disaster recovery and productive mainframe operations

- Track audit findings, remediation plans, and risk register actions.

- Govern vendor service delivery and operational performance.

- Govern availability, capacity, performance, backup, and disaster recovery.

- Oversee change, release, and problem management processes.

- Ensure monitoring of critical platforms and operational tooling.

- Manage operational risk and service resilience.

- Review operational metrics and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Develop enterprise mainframe modernization roadmap.





- Lead the identification and execution of modernization opportunities across cloud integration, application transformation, platform modernization.

- Drive modernization business cases and investment proposals.

- Lead modernization of legacy COBOL, PL/I, JCL, CICS, IMS, and DB2 applications.

- Introduce CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and automation.

- Integrate mainframe platforms with cloud GCP platforms

- Drive adoption of AI-assisted tooling for code analysis, documentation, testing, and migration.

Qualifications

- Mainframe Technologies: IBM z/OS, z15 / z17 Architecture, TSO/ISPF, SDSF , MQ and CICS

- Databases: DB2 IMS DB

- Development Technologies: cobol, JCL REXX

- 15+ years in Mainframe Infrastructure or Mainframe Engineering.

- 8+ years in technical support or governance roles.

- Proven experience managing enterprise-scale z/OS environments.

- Experience driving modernization and cloud transformation programs.

- Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

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