Senior Mainframe Batch Management Specialist

About the project

Drive mission-critical batch operations forward — engineer resilient mainframe services that keep enterprise technology running without interruption.

Krakow-based opportunity with a hybrid work model, including up to 3 remote days per week.

As a Senior Mainframe Batch Management Specialist, you will be working for our client, a global financial services organization, as part of its Enterprise Infrastructure Team. You will deliver operational solutions, resolve incidents and outages, and engineer reliable infrastructure for critical technology products and services. Your work will help ensure operational stability, service resilience, automation, and efficient batch processing across the organization.

This is how we organize our work

This is how we work

• you focus on a single project at a time
• you have influence on the technological solutions applied
• you focus on code maintenance
• agile

Team members

• backend developer
• technical leader
• devOps
• support
• project manager

Your responsibilities

• Ensure the operational stability, integrity, and availability of supported products and services.
• Manage the creation, amendment, and processing of daily, monthly, yearly, and critical batch jobs.
• Resolve batch errors, incidents, and outages efficiently while supporting agreed service levels.
• Deliver infrastructure changes that meet performance, availability, security, resilience, and recovery requirements.
• Drive automation, continuous integration, monitoring, and high availability across batch management processes.
• Manage certificate renewals and Dynamic Work Console activities.
• Own critical End of Day, End of Month, and End of Year processing.
• Participate in and manage the batch management on-call rota.

Our requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in mainframe batch management or a related infrastructure operations role.
• Solid knowledge of JCL for IBM z/OS on Mainframe.
• Solid knowledge of IWS – IBM Workload Scheduler.
• Deep knowledge of resolving batch errors quickly.
• Experience with incident and change management, including an understanding of SLAs.
• Knowledge of Horizont IWS Graph, BatchCP, BatchAD, and XINFO.
• Strong communication, collaboration, delegation, and teamwork skills.
• A tech-lead mindset with the ability to guide a team and coordinate work in an international environment.
• Only candidates with an existing legal right to work in Europe will be considered for this role.

Optional

• Experience as a Tech Lead or Operations Lead.
• An analytical and solution-oriented approach to work.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence.
• Knowledge of German.

What we offer

• ITDS Clubs
• Access to medical insurance
• Access to Multisport
• Access to Pluralsight
• Integrational Events
• Ambassador Program

This is how we work on a project

• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Integration
• active monitoring
• documentation
• issue tracking tools
• technical debt management

Development opportunities we offer

• mentoring

Benefits

• access to +100 projects
• access to Pluralsight
• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• flexible working time
• fruits
• integration events
• corporate gym
• saving & investment scheme
• no dress code
• coffee / tea
• drinks
• christmas gifts
• birthday celebration
• sharing the costs of a streaming platform subscription

Recruitment stages

• online interview
• online interview

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