Senior Lead Mainframe Batch Automation Engineer

Next Frontier Capital; Kentucky; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to shape enterprise batch scheduling, automation, and modernization initiatives. You will lead design and implementation of CA-7/Control-M/ZEKE based workflows, while applying AI-assisted approaches with strong governance and controls.

The role emphasizes deep mainframe ops knowledge, scripting with REXX/Python, and collaboration across security, reliability, and operations teams to drive resilience and innovation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in mainframe systems programming and/or mainframe operations engineering in an enterprise environment.

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

Batch scheduling

Automation scripting

Cloud infrastructure

Communication skills

AI governance

Tools

CA-7

Control-M

ZEKE

JCL

REXX

Python

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer to shape enterprise batch scheduling, automation, and modernization initiatives. You will lead design and implementation of CA-7/Control-M/ZEKE based workflows, while applying AI-assisted approaches with strong governance and controls.

The role emphasizes deep mainframe ops knowledge, scripting with REXX/Python, and collaboration across security, reliability, and operations teams to drive resilience and innovation.