Sr Architect Lead Mainframe Platform Engineer

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JOB SUMMARY

CANDIDATE MUST BE US Citizen (due to contractual/access requirements)

Highmark seeks a highly motivated Sr Architect/Lead Mainframe Platform Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of our critical mainframe systems. This role requires deep expertise in z/OS, DB2, IMS, CICS, MQ, and related technologies, and will involve leading complex projects, troubleshooting critical issues, and mentoring junior engineers. The successful candidate will drive platform improvements, ensure high availability and performance, and champion best practices within a geographically dispersed data center environment. Experience with automation (IBM Systems Automation), diagnostic tools, and disaster recovery planning is essential. This position requires strong collaboration skills and a commitment to fostering a culture of knowledge sharing.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Take a lead role to provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing more complex business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements. Facilitate development of more complex enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques. Participate in more complex enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.

• Take a lead role to specify and design large or more complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure that they are applied effectively. Review others' system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Establish policy for selection of more complex architecture components. Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on more complex major design options. Ensure that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements.

• Use appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of more complex architectures. Take a lead role to produce detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products. Provide advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc. ) and processes. Ensure that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.

• Select and use more complex tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks. Take a lead role to identify the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which more complex products or systems will operate. Identify, propose, initiate, and lead significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits. Modify existing process improvement approaches and/or develop new approaches to achieve improvement.

• Take a lead role to ensure the resolution of a variety of more complex architecture and business problems and serve as a technical or business lead for highly complex project initiatives.

• Communicate effectively will all levels of organization.

• Manage expectations of customers, partners and management.

• Participate in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walkthroughs; and problem resolution and decision making.

• Interact with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of highly complex requirements for peers and other staff.

• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides expert advice regarding their application. The area of specific expertise may be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, process, product, or application area of a more complex nature.

• Take a lead role in providing leadership and mentoring in the areas of expertise and architecture to their peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by: preparing presentations on more complex issues on the area of expertise and presenting to their peers to ensure consistency to the Organization's strategic direction.

• Other duties as assigned or requested.

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related discipline

Substitutions

• None

Preferred

• Master's Degree

EXPERIENCE

Required

• 5 years in an IT discipline

• 5 years in a Business discipline

Preferred

• Expert level z/OS Mainframe Systems Programming background, including SMPE, DB2, IMS, and CICS.

• Experience working with vendors to resolve software and systems issues

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

• Ability to analyze and resolve problems quickly.

• Skilled at communicating with all levels of management

• Good project management skills

• Able to work off-hours and weekends and scheduled, 24x7x365 on-call responsibilities.

• Ability to learn quickly and apply highly complex and technical concepts in a highly available environment.

• 10 plus years' experience with IBM z/Series mainframe

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

Required

• None

Preferred

• Java Developer

• DB2

• Cogno

• PEGA

• Enterprise Architect (SCEA)

• Project Management

SKILLS (An Architect is not required to have experience in all of these, but is required to have those needed to support applications they are responsible for supporting. Current skill set are reviewed every other year, new skills may be required to meet changing business needs. )

• IMS

• DB2

• Oracle and Teradata Databases

• Data Warehousing

• COBAL

• Visual Basic

• C

• C++ SAS

• Java/JavaScript Framework

• PEGA

• CSS3

• Mobile

  
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