IWA Technical Lead - W2 Lead

About the Role

This position is based in Chicago, IL with a preference for remote work on a W2 basis. The role involves leadership and technical expertise in IBM Workload Automation (IWA/TWS/IWS), IBM Mainframe Utilities, IBM DB2 DBA, IBM DevOps tools, and IBM System Automation for z/OS.

Responsibilities

• Product & Platform Knowledge
  • Maintain expert-level, current knowledge of IWA, including version-specific functionality and upgrade implications.
  • Maintain a working overview of business applications hosted on and dependent on IWA-managed servers, including understanding how scheduling failures translate into business impact.
• Batch Scheduling & Job Management
  • Own the full lifecycle of TWS/IWA objects: jobs, job streams, dependencies, calendars, and resources.
  • Direct the creation, configuration, and scheduling of batch jobs, including application-specific job types.
  • Enforce and maintain folder structure and naming convention standards across the environment.
  • Maintain and update IWA calendars and event rule configurations.
  • Maintain and govern the service catalogue(s) for scheduled jobs and workflows.
• Environment & Release Management
  • Lead job migrations to higher environments using WAT and Composer commands, ensuring alignment between staging and production configurations.
  • Coordinate and oversee pre- and post-maintenance activities in partnership with the monitoring team, including validation checks before returning environments to production status.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of IWA Scheduling and administration (IWA/TWS/IWS).
• Ownership of the full lifecycle of TWS/IWA objects: jobs, job streams, dependencies, calendars, and resources.
• Scripting and database query expertise.