Mainframe Lead - Hybrid

HCLTech; São Paulo; Presencial; BRL 180 000 - 300 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

HCLTech in São Paulo, Brazil, seeks an experienced Mainframe Leader to design, develop and deliver COBOL/CICS/DB2 batch and online components. You will own technical quality, translate requirements into robust designs, guide engineers day to day, run code reviews and ensure secure, maintainable delivery into production.

Lead a multi-country team across European and Indian working hours, mentor engineers, define testing standards and drive continuous improvement throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Qualificações

• Experience leading mainframe teams and delivering complex COBOL/CICS/DB2 solutions.
• Ability to translate requirements into robust mainframe designs and plans.
• Proven track record of code reviews, testing and production handover.
• Effective cross-functional collaboration across global delivery teams.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the design, development and delivery of mainframe solutions, ensuring technical quality.
• Own detailed design for mainframe components, interfaces and enhancements within architecture.
• Break down requirements into tasks, estimates and acceptance criteria.
• Deliver hands-on development for complex components and mentor engineers.
• Define and enforce unit/integration/regression testing standards for the team.
• Oversee build, release and deployment readiness including rollback steps; ensure smooth production handover.

Conhecimentos

Leadership & mentoring

Agile delivery

Effective communication

Ferramentas

COBOL

JCL

CICS

VSAM

DB2

z/OS

Descrição da oferta de emprego

HCLTech is a global technology company, spread across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. We re powered by our people a global, diverse, multi-generational talent - representing 161 nationalities whose unique spark, perspective and boundless passion drive our culture of proactive value creation and problem-solving.

Role Purpose:

Lead the design, development and delivery of mainframe solutions, owning technical quality for the team: translating requirements into robust designs, guiding engineers day to day, and ensuring predictable, secure and maintainable delivery into production.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Design & Delivery
• Own detailed design for mainframe components, interfaces and enhancements within the agreed architecture.
• Break down requirements into technical tasks, estimates, sequencing and clear acceptance criteria.
• Deliver hands-on development for complex or high-risk components alongside the team.
• Ensure designs meet performance, security, reliability and maintainability expectations.
• Guide a team of developers on design decisions, coding standards and technical approach.
• Run code reviews, design walkthroughs, defect triage and technical knowledge sharing.
• Mentor engineers, support onboarding and build depth across the mainframe skill set.
• Quality & Operations
• Define and enforce unit, integration and regression testing expectations for the team.
• Own build, release and deployment readiness including rollback and verification steps.
• Drive defect prevention, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes over workarounds.
• Work with architects, business analysts, QA, DevOps and support teams across the delivery lifecycle.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, planning, estimation and dependency management.
• Maintain technical documentation, standards and reusable assets for the team.
• Design, develop and support COBOL/CICS/DB2 batch and online components within agreed standards.
• Optimize batch windows, DB2 access paths and resource consumption to protect service levels.
• Support mainframe modernization, API exposure and integration with distributed and cloud platforms.

Required Technical Competencies:

• COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 and z/OS utilities; batch and online program design and optimization.
• Design & Architecture Mainframe application architecture, modularization, API enablement and modernization/coexistence patterns.
• Data & Integration DB2 and VSAM data design, SQL tuning, file handling, data conversion, integrity and reconciliation.
• Platform & DevOps z/OS operations, scheduling, change management, environment promotion and mainframe-to-distributed integration.
• Quality & Operations Unit and regression testing, batch cycle validation, performance and MIPS optimization, defect RCA.

Leadership & Behavioural:

• Ownership and accountability for team technical outcomes.
• Practical problem solving with a bias for clean, sustainable solutions.
• Clear communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Coaching mindset and collaborative working style.
• Participate in on-site and virtual workshops, design reviews and governance forums.
• Effective communication in a multi-country model, with overlap into European and Indian working hours.

Key Deliverables & Success Measures:

• Detailed designs, estimates and technical plans agreed with architecture and delivery leads.
• High-quality, reviewed and tested code delivered to agreed timelines.
• Stable releases with low defect leakage and effective production handover.