Senior Lead Mainframe & Batch Automation Engineer

JPMorgan Chase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase, a world-renowned financial services leader, seeks a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer for mainframe-focused platforms. You will design, implement, and support enterprise batch scheduling, automation, and modernization initiatives across CA-7, Control-M, and ZEKE, with a strong emphasis on reliability and security.

The role requires deep mainframe expertise, scripting in REXX/Python, and ability to validate AI-assisted recommendations, ensuring compliant operations and effective

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in mainframe systems programming and/or mainframe operations engineering in an enterprise environment.
• Hands-on expertise with CA-7, Control-M, and ZEKE.
• Strong coding/scripting skills in REXX and Python.
• Strong troubleshooting across batch execution lifecycle (JCL errors, dataset/space issues, dependencies, scheduling).
• Knowledge of JCL, JES, catalogs/datasets, SMP/E and operational controls.

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, and support enterprise batch scheduling platforms ( CA-7, Control-M, and/or ZEKE ) including calendars, workload definitions, dependencies, SLA management, and automation.
• Design and implement batch workload standards, governance, and operational controls (job naming, restart/recovery, notifications, and escalation).
• Build and maintain automation solutions using REXX and/or Python to streamline operations (e.g., dataset management, job orchestration, health checks, reporting, and runbook automation).
• Diagnose and resolve batch failures, performance bottlenecks, and scheduling conflicts; perform root-cause analysis and implement preventative improvements.
• Integrate scheduling and automation with enterprise tooling (monitoring/alerting, ticketing, change management, audit evidence capture).
• Drive mainframe modernization initiatives, including API enablement, workflow standardization, and automation-first operating practices.
• Apply AI-assisted approaches to improve productivity and reliability (e.g., log analysis, anomaly detection, runbook generation, code assistance), while ensuring outputs are validated and compliant with applicable controls.
• Create and maintain high-quality documentation: procedures, automation code, runbooks, architectural diagrams, and knowledge base articles.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate analysis of complex infrastructure signals and documentation of mitigation options, validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Drives thought leadership within the product line.
• Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted practices across delivery and automation routines to reduce recurring issues, ensuring changes are validated, traceable and auditable, and aligned to resiliency and security expectations.

Skills

REXX

Python

Mainframe concepts

JCL

Tools

CA-7

Control-M

ZEKE

Job description

JPMorganChase, a world-renowned financial services leader, seeks a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer for mainframe-focused platforms. You will design, implement, and support enterprise batch scheduling, automation, and modernization initiatives across CA-7, Control-M, and ZEKE, with a strong emphasis on reliability and security.

The role requires deep mainframe expertise, scripting in REXX/Python, and ability to validate AI-assisted recommendations, ensuring compliant operations and effective