Project Manager (AS400 + COBOL)
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Job Title -IBM i AS400 Delivery Technical Manager Offshore
Experience 10-15 years in IBM i AS400 delivery with 3 years in leadership roles (Minimum)
Mandatory Skills
Resource Management, Stakeholder Management, Benefits Management, Quality Management, Project Planning, Scope & Change Management, Schedule Management, Project Financial Management, Risk/Crisis Management, Project Governance
Job Summary
We are looking for a seasoned Delivery Technical Manager with strong expertise in IBM i AS400 technologies to lead onsite delivery operations.
The ideal candidate will have a solid technical background in COBOL, DB2, RPG and CL programming along with excellent client interaction skills team management experience anda strong focus on quality delivery and governance
Key Responsibilities
- Delivery Ownership Manage end-to-end delivery of IBM ibased applications across multiple business lanes
- Client Engagement Serve as the primary technical point of contact for the client manages expectations, facilitates communication and handle escalations
- Team Management Lead onsite offshore teams conduct sprint planning resource allocation and performance reviews
- Technical Oversight Review technical designs ensure code quality manage deployments and monitor system stability
- Dependency Management Identify and mitigate cross functional or cross lane dependencies in legacy systems support modularization initiatives without disrupting existing operations
- Governance Reporting Drive weekly, monthly governance meetings report KPIs delivery health and SLA adherence
- Innovation Improvements, Propose modernization strategies performance improvements and operational efficiencies within the AS400 ecosystem
Required Skills Experience
- Strong knowledge of IBM i AS400 COBOL CL RPG and DB2
- Proven experience in managing large legacy application portfolios
- Hands-on experience in incident management, change management and production support
- Familiarity with tools like MDCMS or equivalent and deployment, change management tools
- Excellent communication stakeholder management and problem solving skills
- Prior experience working in a global delivery model onsite, offshore is essential
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in financial serviceslending domain
- Knowledge of AgileScrum and traditional SDLC methodologies
- Exposure to modernization tools or microservices even at concept level
- PMP ITIL or Scrum certifications nice to have
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