Mainframe Practice Lead

13 Aug 2024

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What You Will DoPractice Excellence:

  • Understanding and executing on practice strategy and leading the delivery for one of our Mainframe engineering practice teams.
  • Participating in defining and executing quarterly OKRs and Engineering KPIs.
  • Staying current with new and emerging technologies and selecting innovative platforms to enhance the capabilities of the business; this includes learning the technologies, integrating them within the company, and training our teams to ensure their continued adaptability.
  • Partnering with other practice leaders (Architecture, QE, Agile at Scale, SRE, etc.) and constituents to keep abreast with best practices and standards.
  • Introducing best in class engineering processes and practices, tools and methodologies that help strengthen technical craftmanship, consistency, productivity and enhance practitioner/customer delight.
  • Developing and supporting Mainframe technology software engineering thought leadership by reviewing technical white papers/case studies authored by practitioners.
  • Collaborating on the technical design for new/emerging and existing digital products and partnering with PGTLs to ensure that those products are built to meet customer needs using feasible and scalable technical solutions.
  • Exhibiting subject matter expertise and driving culture change for the practice amongst Business/Customer Journey, and Product/Platform leaders; Helping to develop 'test and learn' lab approach through proof of concept, minimal viable/deployable/usable prototypes to explore new and emerging technologies against customer centric use cases.
  • Implementing automation through a robust Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery model. Solving highly complex problems alongside fellow team members, taking an alternative approach to produce uncommon solutions that may not have been considered before.
  • Improving product quality, security, and performance.
Team Leadership, Stakeholder engagement
  • Partnering with stakeholders, presenting a compelling vision of the strategy, and being able to successfully influence without authority.
  • Leading a team of practitioners (direct reports) in an area of expertise.
  • Providing overall team leadership, training, coaching, development, succession, recruitment, and resource management, and ensuring on-going performance feedback and assessments occur and development plans exist for each team member.
  • Helping your engineers/practitioners grow their skills and experience.
  • Helping your team by identifying and eliminating obstacles to make them successful in their work.
  • Providing guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions, product architecture, and other areas.
  • Contributing to the sense of psychological safety on your team.
  • Holding regular 1:1's with all members of their team.
  • Giving regular and clear feedback around the individual's performance.
Community of Interest (CoI)
  • Helping develop CoIs/special interest groups on various technologies across Mainframe (Front end, middleware, backend), architecture and design patterns (creational, structural, behavioral etc.), as well as some emerging technologies (Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning, Deep Learning), Intelligent Automation, Blockchain, mobile, edge computing, etc.), Mainframe Modernization.
  • Helping organize hackathons and events that encourage practitioners to build proof of concepts/demos as side projects to support exploring new technologies to help build creative solutions.
  • Building and leading an engaged culture that inspires pride and meaningful work amongst practitioners.
Talent Acceleration
  • Actively seeking and hiring globally distributed (best) talent, growing these colleagues, and managing retention.
  • Helping with the development of Day-In-a-Life-Of (DILO) material (videos, runbooks, guides, checklists) for specific roles within the practice that can help practitioners as well as new members during onboarding.
  • Partnering with leading Software Engineering consortiums to jointly organize roadshows, expert panel discussions to raise client's profile. Planning and Allocations
  • Collaborating with PGTLs and other constituents on the product group/customer journey side to understand the product roadmap.
  • Participating in the PI planning to contribute from Engineering best practices perspective.
  • Reviewing practitioner allocations on product/platform PODs to support the demand for skillset competency, and supporting any adjustments required to address velocity/throughput, or competency gaps.
Skills and Experience You Will NeedSkills:
  • Be an evangelist of engineering best practice and hands on experience with high-quality software development principles.
  • Mainframe SE practice technical thought leader, who can lead and execute SE Practice strategy.
  • Have a passion for coaching and mentoring talent, empowering individuals to think differently in how they approach and solve problems.
  • Be open and honest - someone who works collaboratively to freely share knowledge and experience.
  • Be effective at making great decisions and delivering fantastic outcomes in line with Product and Business strategy.
  • You’ll have exceptional communication and interpersonal skills; able to hold one own’s in a strategy discussion with the key business stakeholders as well as capable of technical deep dives in design reviews.
Experience:
  • 5+ years of experience in leading a Mainframe development/support team.
  • 10+ years of experience in developing mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2, SAS, MQ etc on z/OS.
  • Highly organized and methodological.
  • Solid leadership skills and background.
  • Has a can-do attitude and ability to see the bigger picture involving business aspects as well as operational excellence.
  • Good understanding of Creational, Structural, Behavioral Design Patterns, architecture patterns, Application, and Integration architectures.
  • Good understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, etc.).
  • Has an ability to work in a global organization with stakeholders.
  • Proven track record of delivery using a variety of coding techniques and languages.
  • Knowledge and experience of DevSecOps and related tools.
  • Passionate about open source and developer tools.
  • Highly established in managing experienced engineers, along with a demonstrated track record of growing and building high-performing teams.
  • You’ll ideally hold a bachelor's degree, preferably in a Computer Science, Engineering, or STEM subject.
Desired Skills:
  • MQ
  • API
  • MS Azure Cloud Computing
  • Running Docker containers
  • Knowledge on Mainframe Tools ex IDz, ZDT, ADDI, PD tool, IMS Explorer for Development
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Physical Requirements:
  • Prolonged periods of remaining stationary at a desk and working on a computer
  • Must be able to lift to 15 lbs., as needed
  • Must be able to work on-site (corporate/client offices), as needed (not applicable for 100% remote roles)
  • Occasionally required to bend, kneel, crouch, and reach overhead.
  • Hand-eye coordination necessary to operate computers and various pieces of office equipment.
  • Specific vision abilities required include close vision, the ability to tolerate fluorescent lighting, and the ability to adjust focus.
Employees must be able to perform the physical requirements of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees requiring accommodations to perform the essential functions of their jobs, absent undue hardship.For more information, please visit https://www.galaxe.com/

  • ID: #44837097
  • State: New Jersey Mountlaurel 33101 Mountlaurel USA
  • City: Mountlaurel
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-08-13
  • Deadline: 2022-10-11
  • Category: Et cetera