Job Summary

Mainframe Scheduling (OPC)

Cynical Skills
Strong experience with IBM OPC/TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler) or equivalent enterprise scheduling tools. Knowledge of batch scheduling, workload automation, and production job management. Experience creating and maintaining:

Key Responsibilities

1. Batch Schedule Planning & Administration

- Perform all required pre-batch activities.
- Schedule resources and batch services for production workloads.
- Define, maintain, and document production batch schedules and started tasks.
- Install and document system-related batch jobs in the automated scheduling tool.
- Create and maintain scheduling calendars.
- Administer and maintain the automated production scheduling system.

- Production Scheduling & Optimization

- Resolve scheduling conflicts within production cycles.
- Schedule urgent, on-demand, and ad-hoc batch jobs.
- Identify critical batch execution paths using operational statistics.
- Identify jobs suitable for parallel processing and optimize batch schedules.
- Support load balancing across servers where applicable.
- Support special schedules during peak business periods.
- Continuously recommend and implement scheduling improvements.

- Monitoring & Operational Control

- Monitor scheduled batch jobs and batch execution status.
- Monitor scheduler-related incidents and recommend scheduler database improvements.
- Execute operational requests such as Hold, Release, Skip, or Cancel jobs/schedules according to procedures.
- Perform daily Batch Checklist activities.
- Support environments with multiple scheduling masters.

- Incident, Problem & Change Management

- Participate in Problem Management and Change Management activities to ensure availability objectives are met.
- Record, track,



and route incidents to appropriate support teams.
- Execute predefined recovery actions for abnormal batch events.
- Manage and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for scheduling and batch processing issues.
- Escalate unresolved incidents according to defined procedures.

- Governance & Service Improvement

- Develop and maintain job acceptance and implementation standards.
- Collect operational performance metrics from internal and external customers.
- Analyze scheduling performance and identify opportunities for efficiency improvements.
- Support continuous service improvement initiatives across batch operations.

Skill RequirementsSkill Requirement:

- OS JCL TSO/ISPF Mainframe operational procedures

Mainframe Scheduling (OPC/TWS) - Skills Summary

Technical Skills

- Strong experience with IBM OPC/TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler) or equivalent enterprise scheduling tools.
- Knowledge of batch scheduling, workload automation, and production job management.
- Experience creating and maintaining:
- Job schedules
- Workstations and resources
- Calendars
- Critical paths
- Dependencies and triggers

- Understanding of batch processing lifecycle and production control procedures.
- Ability to perform job hold, release, restart, cancel, and recovery actions.

Mainframe Platform Skills

- Robust knowledge of:
- OS
- JCL
- TSO/ISPF
- Mainframe operational procedures





- Understanding of scheduler interfaces with applications, databases, and infrastructure components.

Monitoring & Operations Skills

- Batch job monitoring and exception handling.
- Production workload management and operational support.
- Incident detection, escalation, and service restoration.
- Scheduler database administration and maintenance.
- Support for multi-scheduler or multiple scheduling-master environments.

Performance & Optimization Skills

- Analysis of batch execution statistics and trends.
- Identification of critical processing paths.
- Workload balancing and schedule optimization.
- Batch window management and resource optimization.
- Support for peak-period and special processing schedules.

Problem Management Skills

- Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills.
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for scheduling and batch failures.
- Change Management and Problem Management experience.
- Ability to develop preventive measures and process improvements.

Governance & Service Management Skills

- Operational documentation and runbook management.
- Development of scheduling standards and controls.
- SLA and availability management awareness.
- Performance reporting and operational metrics analysis.
- Continuous service improvement mindset.

Soft Skills:

- Analytical problem-solving capability.
- Strong coordination and communication skills.
- Ability to work in 24x7 production support environments.
- Customer-focused service management approach.
- Effective stakeholder and incident communication.

Other Requirements

- Understanding of batch processing lifecycle and production control procedures.
- Ability to perform job hold, release, restart, cancel, and recovery actions.

📌 SeniorAdministrator - Mainframe SysOps & Batch Scheduling Tools (India)
🏢 HCL Technologies
📍 India