Senior Mainframe Architect: Performance & Capacity

enGen; United States; On-site; USD 102,700 - 164,600; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health is seeking a seasoned Mainframe Senior Architect to oversee performance and capacity management of an IBM zEnterprise environment. The role focuses on monitoring CPU, memory, and storage, forecasting infrastructure needs, and optimizing costs within a Parallel Sysplex setup.

Responsibilities include capacity forecasting, tuning CICS/Db2, WLM policy management, and data analysis using RMF, SMF, SAS/MXG, and Omegamon; SCRT processing for cost control; collaboration with DevOps and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related discipline
• 5 years in an IT discipline
• 5 years in a Business discipline
• Preferred Master’s Degree in a related field

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic consultation to business customers to design complex enterprise processes and enable technologies
• Specify and design large/complex systems, ensuring architecture aligns with requirements and resources
• Develop detailed component requirements and translate into detailed solutions/designs
• Define functional/non-functional requirements and communicate them clearly
• Lead and mentor peers in architecture and technical areas
• Engage in cross-functional collaboration and problem resolution with stakeholders

Skills

IMS

DB2

CICS

MQ

RMF

SMF

WLM

REXX

JCL

Excel

PowerPoint

MSUs

MIPS

C

C++

SAS

Omegamon

SCRT

Cobol

SQL

J2EE

HTML5/XML

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related discipline

Master's Degree

Tools

None

Job description

Highmark Health is seeking a seasoned Mainframe Senior Architect to oversee performance and capacity management of an IBM zEnterprise environment. The role focuses on monitoring CPU, memory, and storage, forecasting infrastructure needs, and optimizing costs within a Parallel Sysplex setup.

Responsibilities include capacity forecasting, tuning CICS/Db2, WLM policy management, and data analysis using RMF, SMF, SAS/MXG, and Omegamon; SCRT processing for cost control; collaboration with DevOps and