Domain Architect

Pune, India
- Tech Hiring
- 3114530

**Job Description**:
**Primary Role & Responsibilities**

**Role
- **Mainframe System Architect
- Description of role and key responsibilities:

- This is a technical, team lead, and hands on role, with a primary focus on design and implementation
- of Mainframe Infrastructure changes; although you will be expected to support the Mainframe
- Infrastructure Engineering and operations team with complex troubleshooting of issues as required.
- You will have experience of working in a high impact, mission critical environments, where service
- matters, and exceeding expectations is the norm. You have lead critical projects, thrive in critical
- problem solving, and enjoy leading a team working on projects

**Key responsibilities**
- The Mainframe System Architect’s primary areas of responsibility include ensuring there are
- defined standards in place, manage the technical lifecycle of products and services, deliver
- change/transformation against created designs; always ensuring a smooth
- transition/handover to Mainframe technology Operations with adjunct supported to the
- Operations as needed
- Perform and upgrade of a major product in a production like environment, evaluating any
- risks and taking actions to mitigate/ minimize these risks via proven back-out plan and
- knowledge of what could wrong including effective testing.
- Defining and documenting Mainframe Infrastructure Architecture Standards and best
- practices
- Creation of Low Level Design documents to meet requirements outlined in the High Level
- Design
- Creation of detailed Implementation Plans for all Mainframe Infrastructure Engineering
- related activity
- Procurement activities relating to build and delivery of new services (Project)
- Ensuring the smooth Transition/Handover to Production Support Operations in line with
- agreed Operational Acceptance Process
- Supporting Architecture in creation and upkeep of a Mainframe Infra Delivery Roadmap
- Supporting the Architecture in scoping activities required to produce the High Level Desig
- Supporting Architecture in undertaking Proof of Concept activities
- Ensuring skillsets are relevant and up to date in order to deliver change and provide a high
- level of support
- Providing escalation support with complex troubleshooting of Major Incidents as required
- Core Skills & Experience:

- A mainframe architect's responsibilities include technical design of mainframe infrastructure
- projects and ensuring that hardware and software work together. They may also be responsible
- for:NTAC:3NS-20
- A minimum 12+ years of hands on experience as Mainframe System Architect within a
- global enterprise scale organization
- Considerable first-hand experience of design engineering and building resilient and scalable
- solutions, ideally within finance or investment banking.
- The concepts of risk and compliance and how to translate these into effective security
- solutions.
- Appreciation of automation and orchestration and will have experience of scripting with
- Native Mainframe and modern technology stacks
- Strong understanding of IBM Mainframe technologies
- Familiar with a variety of testing tools and techniques to accurately troubleshoot and resolve
- hardware and software.
- Technical Skills & Experience:

- You will have expert knowledge and experience in several of the following areas:

- zOS System Programming
- Mainframe System administrator activities
- Modernization and migration: Analyzing, designing, and implementing code and database
- mainframe
- Performance tuning, CoD Provisioning architecture, System Upgrades, Troubleshooting
- Technical hands-on experience on ACF2, SMP/E, VTAM, HMC
- Good to have knowledge on JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS, OPS-MVS
- Scripting language - REXX, CLIST, Python, UNIX Shell, VSAM
- System Management Support with SMP/E, SMF, RMF
- Knowledge on System Services support (storage management, job management, work load
- management, data sets, and data set management)
- Awareness on ISV products, install products and services, perform upgrades, IPL, DR/SR
- activities
- Knowledge on zOS System libraries, zOS Components and Mainframe system hardware
- architecture
- Disaster planning and recovery: Planning for and recovering from disasters
- Product roadmaps: Maintaining product roadmaps that include modernization, cloud
- solutions, and technical debt
- Security and compliance: Ensuring compliance with industry standards for security and audit
- Problem determination and resolution: Identifying and resolving system level problems
- Disaster planning and recovery: Planning for and recovering from disasters
- Modernization and migration: Analyzing, designing, and implementing code and- connected mainframe
- Client support: Providing strong client support and transformations
- Hardware and software: Configuring hardware, installing software products, and
- upgrading and migrating hardware and software
- Security and compliance: Ensu