Senior Infrastructure Specialist - zDatabase IMS Sysprog

Lloyds Banking Group

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 84,000 - 93,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Up to 15% pension contribution

Annual performance bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days holidays + bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives & parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in London is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Specialist to lead IMS and Datacom services on the zMainframe estate. You will ensure reliability, security and performance while supporting major programmes and platform upgrades.

The role requires deep IMS expertise, experience with z/OS environments and collaboration across technical teams in a regulated banking setting. Hybrid working and on-call duties apply.

Qualifications

: Extensive background as an IMS Systems Programmer in a z/OS Mainframe setting.
: Demonstrated experience in installing, configuring, supporting, and maintaining IMS and Datacom products.
: Experience supporting large-scale, business-critical production environments.
: Strong diagnostic and problem-solving skills with experience managing complex technical incidents.
: Knowledge of mainframe operational practices, change management and service management processes.
: Experience working within highly regulated or enterprise-scale environments.
: Effective communication and collaborator management skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
: A proactive approach and passion for delivering resilient, high-quality infrastructure services.

Responsibilities

Delivering technical direction and expert insight for IMS and Datacom technologies within the zMainframe environment.
Crafting, implementing, maintaining and improving infrastructure services in line with Group standards, policies and architectural principles.
Ensuring systems remain secure, available, resilient and performant, meeting agreed service levels and operational objectives.
Supporting infrastructure projects, platform upgrades and technology refresh activities from planning through to implementation.
Investigating and resolving complex incidents and problems, identifying root causes and implementing long-term solutions.
Participating in an on-call rota and providing out-of-hours support when required.
Collaborating with infrastructure, engineering, architecture and application teams to deliver reliable and scalable services.
Finding opportunities for automation, optimisation and continuous improvement across the platform estate.
Contributing to technical documentation, standards, knowledge sharing and mentoring activities.

Skills

IMS Systems Programmer

z/OS Mainframe

IMS & Datacom products

Incident management

Mainframe operations

Change management

Regulated environments

Communication

Collaboration

Automation scripting (desirable)

Tools

Datacom

z/OS

Automation scripting

Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior Infrastructure Specialist - zDatabase IMS Sysprog

SALARY: £84,051 - £93,390

LOCATION(S): London

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our London office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

About this opportunity

As a Senior Infrastructure Specialist, you'll be responsible for the development, implementation, support and continuous improvement of IMS and Datacom services across our zMainframe estate.

Working within the Core Infrastructure z Mainframe team, you'll provide deep technical expertise, ensuring the reliability, performance and security of critical database and transaction processing environments. You'll also support strategic programmes, infrastructure change initiatives and operational excellence activities while helping to develop the strategic direction of our mainframe platforms.

This position provides the chance to contribute within a cooperative, expert group setting where exchanging knowledge, creativity, and ongoing development are strongly supported.

What you'll be doing

Delivering technical direction and expert insight for IMS and Datacom technologies within the zMainframe environment.
Crafting, implementing, maintaining and improving infrastructure services in line with Group standards, policies and architectural principles.
Ensuring systems remain secure, available, resilient and performant, meeting agreed service levels and operational objectives.
Supporting infrastructure projects, platform upgrades and technology refresh activities from planning through to implementation.
Investigating and resolving complex incidents and problems, identifying root causes and implementing long-term solutions.
Participating in an on-call rota and providing out-of-hours support when required.
Collaborating with infrastructure, engineering, architecture and application teams to deliver reliable and scalable services.
Finding opportunities for automation, optimisation and continuous improvement across the platform estate.
Contributing to technical documentation, standards, knowledge sharing and mentoring activities.

Why join us?

We're transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We're growing, and we'd love you to be part of the journey.

What we're looking for?

Extensive background as an IMS Systems Programmer in a z/OS Mainframe setting.
Demonstrated experience in installing, configuring, supporting, and maintaining IMS and Datacom products.
Experience supporting large-scale, business-critical production environments.
Strong diagnostic and problem-solving skills with experience managing complex technical incidents.
Knowledge of mainframe operational practices, change management and service management processes.
Experience working within highly regulated or enterprise-scale environments.
Effective communication and collaborator management skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
A proactive approach and passion for delivering resilient, high-quality infrastructure services.

And any experience of these would be great

Datacom Admin experience for z/OS
Knowledge of automation, scripting or infrastructure optimisation techniques.
Experience supporting modernisation initiatives involving mainframe platforms.
Understanding of broader z/OS infrastructure components and associated technologies.

If you're passionate about mainframe technology and want to help shape the future of critical banking infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: