Precision Technologies · 4 days ago
IBM Workload Scheduled Consultant with Mainframe experience
Precision Technologies is seeking an IBM Workload Scheduled Consultant with Mainframe experience. The role involves designing and maintaining job definitions, monitoring operations, and automating deployments while ensuring compliance and collaboration with various teams.
Responsibilities
Create and maintain job definitions, job streams, calendars, variable tables, prompts, and restart logic; enforce naming/versioning standards
Monitor via DWC dashboards/critical path, triage failures, analyze return codes, implement preventive fixes, and document runbooks
Implement file/message/RC-based triggers, dependencies, and what-if analyses for late/missing upstreams
Use IWS CLI/REST, Shell/Python/PowerShell to automate deployments, checks, and reporting; integrate with ServiceNow/Jira for change & incident
Plan and execute upgrades (e.g., 9.x→10.x), agent deployments/patching, backups, DR testing, and rollback plans
Produce weekly SLA/MTTR/failure trend reports; ensure controls for audit/compliance (access, approvals, segregation)
Partner with app/DB/infra teams for onboarding, cutovers, and performance tuning; mentor L1/L2 and promote best practices
Qualification
Required
8+ years hands-on with IWS/IBM Workload Automation (aka TWS) on distributed platforms and daily use of DWC
Strong command of job vs job stream design, calendars (holidays/exceptions/offsets), dependencies, prompts, and idempotent recovery
Proven SLA monitoring and incident management via DWC (critical path, what-if, dashboards)
Scripting proficiency (Shell/Python/PowerShell), using CLI/REST for automation; Git familiarity
OS fundamentals on Linux/Windows; comfort with networks, agents, and service accounts
Experience with change management and production controls (approvals, evidence, CAB, backout)
Preferred
Cross-platform exposure (z/OS), scheduler DB basics (DB2/Oracle), LDAP/SSO for DWC
Integration with CI/CD pipelines and observability (logs/metrics)
Familiarity with other schedulers (Stonebranch/JAMS/Control-M/Autosys) and conversion projects
Knowledge of data platform workflows (ETL/ELT), and cloud schedulers (Azure Data Factory, Databricks jobs) and how they align with IWS
Company
Precision Technologies
Precision Technologies Corp. (PTC) is an NJ headquartered boutique professional services firm mapping the right IT talent for our customers.
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