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Job Summary

The Principal Platform Engineer manages and leads the relationship with the Bread Financial Managed Service Provider (MSP) who supports our Mainframe environments. This Principal leads the MSP Engineers to provide and perform support operations for our Mainframe environment. This role focuses on continual improvement with resiliency, reliability and operations of Mainframe and processes to support the Mainframe environment.

 

Essential Job Functions:

• Technology Solutions: Understand the software development lifecycle to support implementation of technology solutions that create and enhance applications in the mainframe space. Inspect, analyze, and translate application functional and non-functional requirements into infrastructure technical design, application code, and configuration parameters. Provide technical on-call support as defined within the team and role expectations. Demonstrate proficiency in two or more programming languages (e.g. COBOL, Java) and develop or maintain at least three applications. Responsible for working with Mainframe application development engineers to review and troubleshoot code in conjunction with Infrastructure, DB2 Database code reviews and other Code level activities that may have an impact on the Mainframe infrastructure. 

• Quality and Testing: Create and execute unit tests to ensure issues are proactively identified within the software development lifecycle. Assist in analyzing code to identify causes of errors and defects. Remediate known errors within development and production support contexts. Review application code with application and MSP teams. Estimate and size work based upon high-level requirements. Continuously improve infrastructure for applications and processes with a focus on quality, efficiency, and user experience.

• Partnership: Cultivate relationships across roles and organizations to maximize collaboration, partnership, and efficiency. Provide peer coaching and feedback formally and informally. Request and utilize feedback to foster personal development. Manage and lead the relationship with our Managed Service Provider (MSP) who supports our Mainframe environments. Build and maintain strong relationships with mid-level business partners, with executive level leadership and serve as the Mainframe technology subject matter expert in cross functional meetings. Demonstrate a strong understanding of the business and articulate business value of technology solutions to business partners.

• Strategic Impact: Handle mainframe SME initiatives such as; review and approval of IPL/upgrade schedules, observability of Mainframe environments such as dashboards/monitoring/alerting, high availability configuration and practices, OEM upgrades/updates to keep the environments and Mainframe support applications up to date and support OEM ticket submission process/tracking. Responsible for approval/denial of MSP SLA adherence to Mainframe availability, Mainframe maintenance, and Mainframe changes. Responsible for approval/denial of MSP monthly billing review in conjunction with the MSP SLA adherence through Bread Financial governance portal.

• Leadership: Work autonomously, providing technical supervision to peers while demonstrating appreciable business knowledge within the general financial services and marketing domains. Influence the team to generate support to achieve desired business outcomes. Responsible for the relationship of IBM, Broadcom, BMC and other Mainframe vendors used to support, maintain, and improve our Mainframe environments. Mentor and coach MSP technology leads and other technical team members to assess needs, provide assistance, and resolve technical problems. Lead and direct MSP technical leads and Application Development teams to identify improvement opportunities in resiliency, reliability and observability in the Mainframe environments. Operate as subject matter expert responsible for providing strategic direction input to senior leadership on the support, maintenance, growth and utilization of our Mainframe environment.

Reports To: Director Cloud Operations, Director Infrastructure, or Senior Director Infrastructure and Cloud Services 

Direct Reports: None, has technical oversight over MSP team members.

Working Conditions/ Physical Requirements:

• Normal Office Environment.

• This position is hybrid with an onsite schedule of 3-4 days per month. In-office requirements are subject to change based on business needs. This position is currently available to candidates that reside within 60 miles of Columbus, OH, Plano, TX, Chadds Ford, PA, New York, NY, Wilmington, DE or Draper, UT.

• Occasional travel to data centers and vendor conferences.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field of study.

• 10 years of experience working across areas of the mainframe environment.

• 5 years of experience designing and deploying complex mainframe IT solutions.

• Experience within a mainframe technical background using COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, and related utilities.

• Experience as a Senior Systems Programmer using z/OS, CICS, DB2, network, RACF, storage management, WebSphere, disk storage, and LPAR management.

• Experience related to zMainframe disaster recovery and resiliency.

• Experience with the creation of detailed documentation for daily operational functions, event management, and recoverability.

• Experience with LPAR creation and management resulting in the elimination of single points of failure, continuous uninterrupted operations, simplified disaster recovery, and cost-effective software licensing costs.

• Experience with budget and forecast management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12 years of experience working across areas of the mainframe environment.

• 7 years of experience managing mainframe support teams.

• Experience working as a z/OS Architect.

• Experience as the manager of a zMainframe team in a 24x7 environment or equivalent lead experience in multiple Mainframe environments.

• 10 years of experience across all disciplines of the zMainframe environment.

• 5 years of experience in banking or financial services industries.

• 5 years of Mainframe application development experience.

• Experience with z/OS system hardware, operating system, security, disk storage, flex capacity, and automation.

• Experience with Azure (or AWS equivalent): App Service, Functions, Databricks, Logic Apps, SQL server, CosmosDB.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• IBM Mainframe z/OS 

• MF Capacity Planning

• MF Automation

• Sysplex

• Online and batch processing

• Software Diversified Services (SDS) CICS

• COBOL

• DB2 

• JCL 

• CA7 – batch scheduling

• RACF

• Throughput Manager, Workload Manager and/or similar tools

• IPL management

• Service Now, monitoring/alerting, process improvement

• Agile Development Process, Principles and Methodologies

• Business Acumen and Problem Solving

• Continuous Improvement

• DevOps Tools a d Practices

• COBOL, Java, C#, .net, Ruby, PHP, etc.

• Knowledge of at least one in-demand programming language

• Written and verbal communication skills, and demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical team members

• Knowledge of third-party products such as BMC File-AID, Abend-AID, ISPW, Strobe, Xpediter, IBM Connect Direct, Sterling File Gateway, zSecure, MicroFocus ChangeMan ZMF, New Era Image Focus and Precisely Syncsort.

Other Duties

This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time, the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.

Salary Range (unless otherwise noted below):

$133,500.00 - $241,900.00

Full Salary Range for position:

California: $153,500.00 - $302,400.00

Colorado: $133,500.00 - $254,000.00

New York: $146,800.00 - $302,400.00

Washington: $140,100.00 - $278,200.00

Maryland: $140,100.00 - $266,100.00

Washington DC: $153,500.00 - $278,200.00

Illinois: $133,500.00 - $266,100.00

New Jersey: $153,500.00 - $278,200.00

The actual base pay within this range may be dependent upon many factors, which may include, but are not limited to, work location, education, experience, and skills.

Bread Financial offers medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and other voluntary benefits (including basic and optional life insurance, supplemental medical plans, and short and long-term disability) to eligible associates (regular full-time associates scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more) and their spouses/domestic partners, and child(ren) under the age of 26.  New associate elected coverage begins on date of hire (with the exception of disability coverage which has a 6-month waiting period).  Six weeks of 100% paid parental leave for eligible parents is available after a 180-day waiting period.   Hired associates can immediately enroll in Bread Financial’s 401(k) plan.

All associates receive 11 paid holidays. Associates have discretion in managing their time away from work through the Flexible Time Off (FTO) program and may need to notify and receive approval from their manager prior to taking the time off. Associates (except those located in Illinois) receive 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time (“PSST”) upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year. Illinois associates receive 40 hours of Illinois PSST upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year and 40 hours of Illinois Paid Leave upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year. Illinois Paid Leave must be used before associates in Illinois will be approved to take FTO.

Hired associates will be able to elect the purchase company stock during offering periods in June and December. You will be eligible for an annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance.

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About Bread Financial

• Bread Financial offers competitive pay, a comprehensive selection of benefit options including 401(k).
• The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Any applicant offered employment will be required to establish that they are legally authorized to work in the United States for the Company.
• The Company participates in E-Verify.
• The Company will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.  Applicants with criminal histories are encouraged to apply.
• The Company complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended, and all applicable state/local laws.  The Company will provide accommodations to applicants needing accommodations to complete the application process. Applicants with disabilities may contact the Company to request and arrange for accommodations.  If you need assistance to accommodate a disability, you may request an accommodation at any time.  Please contact the Recruiting Team at TaOps@breadfinancial.com.

Job Family:

Information Technology

Job Type:

Regular

Salary : $133,500 - $241,900