Overview
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider throughout India and many other countries in the world. The below client is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place one that benefits lives, communities and the planet
Job Title: Software Engineer (II) - Commodity Senior Engineer
Location: Chennai
Work Type: Hybrid
Position Description
As a Mainframe Support Leader, you will:
- Lead and Mentor: Guide and empower a team of 5-6 software engineers, fostering an Agile environment focused on delivering continuous value.
- Ensure Operational Excellence: Oversee daily tasks, ensuring accurate and timely completion of workloads, and managing 24/7 production incidents, including off-hours and weekend coverage.
- System Stability & Performance: Proactively monitor mainframe systems for errors and performance bottlenecks, implementing solutions to maintain optimal operation.
- Security & Compliance: Uphold stringent procedural compliance for internal and external audits (e.g., GAO), ensuring the secure handling of PII and confidential company information.
- Manage system security aspects, including passwords, client IDs/secrets, credentials, and certificates.
- Enhancement & Development: Lead the development and implementation of small-scale enhancements, translating business requirements into robust, tested software solutions.
- Collaboration & Integration: Partner with other mainframe engineering teams, database specialists, network, and extranet teams.
- Collaborate with credit bureaus to support existing products and integrate new data sources as requested by the business team.
- Test Data Management: Drive test data propagation, masking, and execution of comprehensive test cycles to support business processes.
- Tooling & Automation: Manage software configurations using tools like Endeavor and GitHub.
Experience
Required qualifications:
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in mainframe development, design, analysis, and coding, encompassing both online and batch processing.
- Mainframe Technologies: In-depth knowledge of Mainframe COBOL, TSO, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, REXX, and z/OS systems.
- Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to provide technical troubleshooting guidance, accurately size technical work, anticipate dependencies, and lead technical discussions involving critical tradeoffs (timelines, performance, latency).
- Problem-Solving: Proven ability to troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex mainframe issues, with strong incident reporting capabilities.
- Communication & Collaboration: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational abilities, and a track record of effective teamwork in a global environment.
- Data Security: Experience handling sensitive personal information, including masking and encrypting data for test environments.
- Initiative: A history of working independently, taking initiative, and proactively resolving challenges.
Preferred Qualifications
- Education: An undergraduate degree in Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related experience.
- Agile Expertise: Familiarity with Agile methodologies, including Jira, backlog management, iterations, user stories, and facilitating daily stand-up meetings.
- Cloud Exposure: General knowledge and familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Development & Testing Mastery: Expertise in software development and testing best practices.
- Modern DevOps: Experience with CI/CD, Automated Software Regression engineering & testing, and DevOps/Security tools (e.g., Jenkins, 42Crunch, Sonarqube, CheckMarx, FOSSA).
- Monitoring & Alerting: Hands-on experience with alerting and monitoring tools like Dynatrace or Splunk.
- API Management: Knowledge of z/OS API publishing via Hopscotch and Apigee is a plus.
- Business Acumen: Risk experience and business domain knowledge are highly valued.
Skills Required
Skills Preferred
- Ability to communicate and work with cross-functional teams and all levels of management , CA-7, Jira, Customer Information Control System (CICS), Job Control Language (JCL), Big Query,, API, IBM DB2, COBOL, JCL, AIPGEE, IBM Utilities
Experience Required
- Senior Engineer Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang.; guides. 10+ years in IT; 8+ years in development
Education Required
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. 
