Lead Mainframe CICS SRE

Roles and Responsibilities: Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of mainframe solutions aligned with business objectives and technology strategy. Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to mainframe development, infrastructure, operations, and modernization teams. Collaborate with business stakeholders, application teams, and infrastructure teams to define requirements and deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions. Establish and govern mainframe workload intake, onboarding, and change processes for new applications and services. Analyze and optimize CICS, IBM MQ, and z/OS Connect services to improve performance, reliability, and resource utilization. Review telemetry data, system traces, and performance metrics to identify bottlenecks and resolve service availability issues. Troubleshoot complex CICS and MQ incidents and support release, change, incident, and problem-management activities. Develop and maintain architecture standards, technical roadmaps, solution blueprints, and governance frameworks. Drive mainframe modernization initiatives, including integration with cloud platforms, distributed systems, and containerized environments. Promote DevOps, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices to improve deployment efficiency and operational consistency. Ensure mainframe solutions meet enterprise security, availability, scalability, and compliance requirements. Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend architectural improvements to enhance system performance, maintainability, and cost efficiency. Key Technical Skills and Qualifications Strong expertise in IBM z/OS, COBOL, CICS, IBM MQ, and z/OS Connect. Experience with CICS, MQ, and z/OS Connect performance tuning, telemetry, and trace analysis. Knowledge of mainframe modernization, application integration, and migration strategies. Experience with mainframe workload intake, change management, release management, incident management, and problem management. Familiarity with cloud integration, Linux on IBM Z (zLinux), OpenShift, and hybrid architecture. Experience with DevOps practices and automation using Red Hat Ansible for IBM Z, Ansible, and Python. Strong understanding of high availability, security, scalability, resilience, and enterprise architecture principles. Excellent technical leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and communication skills.