Mainframe Senior Architect – Performance & Capacity Management

About the role

This role is accountable for the performance and capacity management of Highmark’s IBM zEnterprise mainframe environment, ensuring optimal system efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. The position requires deep technical expertise across core mainframe technologies, including z/OS, Db2, IMS, CICS, MQ, and related subsystems.

Responsibilities

• Proactively monitor system resource utilization (CPU, memory, storage)
• Analyze workload trends
• Forecast future infrastructure requirements
• Support business growth
• Capacity Forecasting
• Performance Tuning of applications, middleware (CICS, Db2), and Workload Manager (WLM) policies
• Data Analysis leveraging tools like RMF, SMF, SAS/MXG, and Omegamon
• Billing & Cost Optimization through Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool (SCRT) processing
• Cross-functional Collaboration with application and DevOps teams

Requirements

• 10+ years of mainframe systems experience in large, multi-LPAR, Parallel Sysplex z/OS environments
• Expertise in real-time mainframe performance monitoring and capacity management
• Deep experience with RMF, SMF, WLM, and other mainframe performance tools
• Strong hands-on skills in REXX and JCL
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Prioritize troubleshooting and optimizing mainframe workloads in real time

Qualifications

• Required Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related discipline
• Preferred Master's Degree
• Required 5 years in an IT discipline, 5 years in a Business discipline

Skills

• IMS
• DB2
• Data Warehousing
• COBOL
• Visual Basic
• C/C++
• SAS
• Java/JavaScript Framework
• PEG
• CSS3
• Mobile
• JSON
• Cognos
• Hadoop
• SQL
• J2EE
• HTML5/XML
• Waterfall
• Agile

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

$102,700.00 - $164,600.00

Schedule

Not specified