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Senior Technical Lead

India

Job Description

Senior Technical Lead

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Job Summary

ROLE

BAND

TECH STACK

EXPERIENCE

TYPE

Mainframe Lead

E2.2

Mainframe

10+ Years

Full-time

Role Purpose

Lead the design, development and delivery of mainframe solutions, owning technical quality for the team: translating requirements into robust designs, guiding engineers day to day, and ensuring predictable, secure and maintainable delivery into production.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Design & Delivery

- Own detailed design for mainframe components, interfaces and enhancements within the agreed architecture.

- Break down requirements into technical tasks, estimates, sequencing and clear acceptance criteria.

- Deliver hands-on development for complex or high-risk components alongside the team.

- Ensure designs meet performance, security, reliability and maintainability expectations.

Team Leadership

- Guide a team of developers on design decisions, coding standards and technical approach.

- Run code reviews, design walkthroughs, defect triage and technical knowledge sharing.

- Mentor engineers, support onboarding and build depth across the mainframe skill set.

Quality & Operations

- Define and enforce unit, integration and regression testing expectations for the team.

- Own build, release and deployment readiness including rollback and verification steps.

- Drive defect prevention, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes over workarounds.

Collaboration & Governance

- Work with architects, business analysts, QA, DevOps and support teams across the delivery lifecycle.

- Participate in agile ceremonies, planning, estimation and dependency management.

- Maintain technical documentation, standards and reusable assets for the team.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Focus - Mainframe

- Design, develop and support COBOL/CICS/DB2 batch and online components within agreed standards.

- Optimize batch windows, DB2 access paths and resource consumption to protect service levels.

- Support mainframe modernization, API exposure and integration with distributed and cloud platforms.

Required Technical Competencies

Core Skills

COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 and z/OS utilities; batch and online program design and optimization.

Design & Architecture

Mainframe application architecture, modularization, API enablement and modernization/coexistence patterns.

Data & Integration

DB2 and VSAM data design, SQL tuning, file handling, data conversion, integrity and reconciliation.

Platform & DevOps





z/OS operations, scheduling, change management, environment promotion and mainframe-to-distributed integration.

Quality & Operations

Unit and regression testing, batch cycle validation, performance and MIPS optimization, defect RCA.

Experience & Qualifications

- 10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering with strong mainframe expertise.

- Demonstrated experience leading small to mid-sized technical teams through full delivery cycles.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience.

- Relevant platform or cloud certifications advantageous, not mandatory.

Leadership & Behavioural

- Ownership and accountability for team technical outcomes.

- Practical problem solving with a bias for clean, sustainable solutions.

- Clear communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

- Coaching mindset and team-oriented working style.

Location-Specific Expectations

- Collaborate from an India delivery location with stakeholders across regions and time zones.

- Ensure standards, decisions and reusable patterns are documented and adopted across distributed squads.

- Support virtual workshops, technical governance and production-readiness reviews.

Key Deliverables & Success Measures

- Detailed designs, estimates and technical plans agreed with architecture and delivery leads.

- High-quality, reviewed and tested code delivered to agreed timelines.

- Stable releases with low defect leakage and effective production handover.

- Improved team capability, engineering consistency and reusable assets.

- Timely escalation and resolution of technical risks and blockers.

Skill Requirements

Other Requirements

Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.

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📌 Senior Technical Lead (India)
🏢 HCLTech
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