Technical Lead of Batch Management

For one of our Clients operating in the global financial services sector, we are seeking talented professionals to join long-term strategic initiatives.

At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our Synechron Labs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 14,000+, and has 55 offices in 20 countries within key global markets.

• Solid knowledge of JCL for IBM z/OS on Mainframe
• Solid knowledge of IWS – IBM Workload Scheduler
• Drive knowledge sharing and team building
• Collaborative skills within an international team
• Tech lead approach including guiding, scheduling work, and delegation skills
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Participate and manage on-call rota
• Ability to drive improvements and solutions within the team
• Deep knowledge of resolving batch errors quickly
• Basic knowledge of Horizon IWS Graph, BatchCP, BatchAD, and XINFO
• Ownership of critical batch, End of day/month/year processes
• Incident and change management skills and understanding of SLA’s
• Very good language skills in English (written and spoken)

• Deliver operational solutions and resolve issues, incidents, and outages related to batch processing
• Ensure operational stability, integrity, and availability of products and services supported by the team
• Ensure compliance with relevant Service Management standards and maintain high data quality in Service Management systems
• Support identification and resolution of all incidents associated with the IT service as directed by DevOps team leadership
• Ensure service resilience, sustainability, and recovery time objectives for software solutions
• Deliver engineering changes to infrastructure focusing on customer/user experience
• Develop and deploy infrastructure changes to meet load, performance, availability, security, and resilience requirements
• Automate build, testing, and deployment processes to ensure predictable high-quality code and data
• Drive automation, continuous integration, and system monitoring for high availability
• Manage daily, monthly, yearly, and critical batch processing operations
• Manage on-call schedules for batch management team
• Manage certificate renewals and Dynamic Work Console