Lead PL/I Architect — Mainframe, Melbourne Project

Ayan Infotech Pty; Melbourne; Presencial; AUD 180.000 - 240.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

AYAN InfoTech in Melbourne seeks a Lead PL/I Design and Development Consultant to guide a senior development team on a challenging PL/I-based ManTec project.

The role demands hands-on leadership, deep PL/I expertise on IBM mainframes, and a track record of delivering complex, high-risk changes with performance optimisations. You will mentor COBOL veterans transitioning to PL/I and ensure production readiness.

Formación

• Extensive commercial experience designing and developing enterprise PL/I applications on IBM mainframe platforms.
• 20+ years of mainframe experience in banking/insurance or similarly complex regulated environments.
• Significant PL/I development, migration, remediation or modernization initiatives.
• Hands-on involvement across solution design, build, test, deployment, troubleshooting and tuning.
• Deep knowledge of VSAM file structures, access patterns, performance and recoverability.
• Deep knowledge of IBM MQ, including integration, diagnostics and performance.
• Ability to work with large, legacy applications safely and effectively.
• Strong written and verbal communication for technical designs and guidance.

Responsabilidades

• Lead technical analysis and detailed design of complex PL/I application changes.
• Establish practical design and development approaches for the Phoenix solution.
• Undertake hands-on development of complex PL/I components.
• Analyze large PL/I codebases including online, batch and integration processing.
• Lead complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and performance-tuning activities.
• Review designs and code produced by the development team.
• Identify technical risks and potential implementation issues.
• Collaborate with the team to resolve engineering problems.
• Support estimation, planning, testing and production-readiness activities.
• Provide technical leadership and transfer PL/I skills to the team.

Conocimientos

PL/I programming

Mainframe design

Technical leadership

Troubleshooting

Performance tuning

Design review

VSAM

IBM MQ

Communication skills

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Herramientas

Mainframe tools

IBM MQ tooling

Descripción del empleo

AYAN InfoTech is looking for Lead PL/I Design and Development Consultant to join an exciting project based in Melbourne. The role offers you the opportunity to contribute towards an extremely well structured and mature environment, working on sophisticated enhancement projects.

Role: Lead PL/I Design and Development Consultant
Location: Melbourne
Contract Duration: 6 Months with high possible extensions
Experience: 7+ Years

Job Summary:

We require a highly experienced, hands-on PL/I design and development consultant to provide technical leadership to the existing development team.

Team comprises experienced former COBOL developers who have approximately three to four years' experience developing and supporting the PL/I-based ManTec application. The consultant will complement the team by bringing substantial experience from significant PL/I initiatives and deep expertise in complex application design, development, troubleshooting and performance tuning.

This is not a production support, routine maintenance or general development capacity role. The consultant will lead complex technical analysis and design, work hands-on with the code, provide technical assurance, and help the existing team resolve the most demanding engineering challenges.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical analysis and detailed design of complex PL/I application changes.
• Establish practical design and development approaches for the Phoenix solution.
• Undertake hands-on development of complex or high-risk PL/I components.
• Analyse large and complex existing PL/I codebases, including online, batch and integration processing.
• Lead complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and performance-tuning activities.
• Review technical designs and code produced by the development team.
• Identify technical risks, design weaknesses and potential implementation issues.
• Work collaboratively with the development team to resolve complex engineering problems.
• Support technical estimation, development planning, testing, implementation and production-readiness activities.
• Provide technical leadership while strengthening the team's PL/I capability through practical knowledge transfer.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Extensive commercial experience designing and developing enterprise applications in PL/I on IBM mainframe platforms.
• A career depth typically associated with 20 or more years of relevant mainframe application experience, preferably within banking, insurance or a similarly complex regulated environment.
• Demonstrated experience delivering significant PL/I development, migration, remediation or modernisation initiatives.
• Substantial hands-on involvement across solution design, detailed technical design, build, testing, implementation, troubleshooting and tuning.
• Deep technical knowledge of VSAM, including complex file structures, access patterns, performance, concurrency, integrity and recoverability.
• Deep practical knowledge of IBM MQ, including application integration, message processing, exception handling, diagnostics and performance.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and safely modify large, complex and potentially poorly documented legacy applications.
• Strong diagnostic and problem-solving capability across online, batch, data-access and integration processing.
• Experience providing hands-on technical leadership, design assurance and code review within an established development team.
• Ability to work effectively with experienced developers without duplicating responsibilities or operating purely as an adviser.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the production of clear technical designs and implementation guidance.

Contact: 61-[phone] for more details.

Please note we will be able to contact only shortlisted candidates for this role. We thank you in advance for your interest.