Senior Infrastructure Specialist - zDatabase IMS Sysprog

Lloyds Banking Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping

30 days' holiday with bank holidays on

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Specialist in a hybrid role with offices in Manchester or Edinburgh. You will lead IMS and Datacom services within the zMainframe estate, ensuring reliability, performance and security across critical database and transaction processing environments.

The role involves shaping strategy, supporting major infrastructure projects, and driving continuous improvement through collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive background as an IMS Systems Programmer in a z/OS Mainframe setting.
• Experience 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

Mainframe

Incident management

Cross-team collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

z/OS

Datacom

Automation scripting

Job description

LOCATION(S):

Manchester or Edinburgh

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 Manchester or Edinburgh 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.

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.

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:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies