: Mainframe Engineering Lead / Architect

Hybrid Mode

Immediate Joiner Only

- Location: Bangalore / Gurgaon / Noida / Pune / Hyderabad
- Experience: 12+ Years

Key responsibilities

- Assess the current mainframe non-production estate: regions, dependencies, batch, test data, and build/deploy processes.
- Identify where shared regions and manual processes cause waiting, contention and late testing.
- Assess the current mainframe toolchain, licences and skills, and confirm what is realistically available.
- Help define the target state for mainframe environments, deciding what must stay shared and what can be automated, isolated or virtualised.
- Shape the mainframe approach to CI/CD, source control (Endevor/Git, including running both during transition), automated testing, test data and service virtualisation.
- Contribute to the performance and batch testing strategy at representative volumes, including month-end and year-end runs.
- Define the mainframe boundary for the PoV and work hands-on with engineers to deliver a thin implementation,



linking the pipeline to existing build/deploy and automating test data reset.
- Turn findings into practical recommendations for the next phase’s roadmap.

Required experience

- Deep IBM z/OS application engineering background: COBOL, JCL, CICS, Db2, with working knowledge of MQ and VSAM
- Mainframe build, deploy and release lifecycle, ideally including Endevor
- Batch processing, scheduling and performance analysis
- Mainframe test environments and test data management
- Practical experience applying CI/CD and DevOps to mainframe
- Experience working across mainframe and digital/cloud engineering teams

Desirable

- Git-based mainframe development (Endevor Bridge for Git, IBM Dependency Based Build)
- IBM Wazi / Wazi Deploy, zUnit / Test Accelerator for Z, ZD&T;
- IBM Z Virtual Test Platform or other mainframe service virtualisation
- BMC AMI or IBM Optim for test data; Strobe/APA for performance profiling
- Financial services or banking experience

📌 Mainframe Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Innova ESI
📍 Bengaluru