Sr. Lead, Infra Mainframe

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Job Description

The Mainframe System Architect’s primary areas of responsibility include ensuring there are defined standards in place, manage the technical lifecycle of products and services, deliver change/transformation against created designs. The architect is responsible for a smooth transition/handover to Mainframe technology Operations with adjunct supported to the Operations as needed.

Major Duties:

- Assist and review the technical activities with implementation team for a major product upgrade in a production environment, assessing any risks and recommending actions to mitigate/ minimize these risks.

- Defining and documenting Mainframe Infrastructure Architecture Standards and best practices.

- Creation of Low Level Design documents to meet requirements outlined in the High Level Design

- Creation of detailed Implementation Plans for all Mainframe Infrastructure Engineering related activity.

- Procurement activities relating to build and delivery of new services (Project).

- Ensuring the smooth Transition/Handover to Production Support Operations in line with agreed Operational Acceptance Process.

- Supporting Architecture in the creation and upkeep of a Mainframe Infra Delivery Roadmap.

- Supporting the Architecture in scoping activities required to produce the High Level Design.

- Supporting Architecture in undertaking Proof of Concept activities

- Ensuring skillsets are relevant and up to date in order to deliver change and provide a high level of support

- Providing escalation support with complex troubleshooting of Major Incidents as required

Knowledge/Skills:

- zOS System Programming

- Mainframe System administrator activities

- Performance tuning, System Upgrades, Troubleshooting

- System Management Support with SMP/E, SMF, RMF

- Knowledge on System Services support (storage management, job management, work load management, and data set management)

- Awareness on Mainframe ISV product functionality, renewal and cost model, maintenance and support policy.

- Knowledge on zOS System libraries, zOS Components and Mainframe system hardware architecture

- Technical hands-on experience on ACF2, VTAM, MQ and CICS

- Disaster planning and recovery: Planning for and recovering from disasters

- Product roadmaps: Maintaining product roadmaps that include modernization, cloud solutions, High Availability and technical debt

- Security and compliance: Ensuring compliance with industry standards for security and audit

- Problem determination and resolution: Identifying and resolving system level problems

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.