Batch Scheduling Specialist – Mainframe & Automation

Unleash the power of automation and reliability — orchestrate seamless mainframe operations to drive enterprise success!

Kraków-based opportunity with hybrid work model (2 days/week in the office, 3 days remote).

As a Batch Scheduling Specialist – Mainframe & Automation, you will be working for our client, a leading global financial institution delivering secure and reliable IT services for critical enterprise systems. You will be responsible for maintaining the operational stability, integrity, and availability of batch processes on mainframe environments, ensuring compliance with service management standards. By collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will drive automation, monitor performance, and manage incidents to guarantee high-quality, resilient software operations, while continuously improving workflows to meet business demands and customer expectations.

Your main responsibilities:

• Ensuring operational stability, integrity, and availability of products and services

• Delivering infrastructure changes with a focus on automation, build, testing, and deployment

• Monitoring and maintaining system performance, availability, and resilience

• Providing support in identification and resolution of incidents

• Ensuring compliance with Service Management Standards and data quality requirements

• Developing and deploying changes to meet load, performance, and security requirements

• Driving levels of automation and continuous integration across environments

• Managing incident and change requests according to SLA requirements

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to maintain service resilience and sustainability

• Maintaining accurate documentation and knowledge within service management systems

You're ideal for this role if you have:

• At least 3 years of experience in IT, specifically with mainframe operations

• Solid knowledge of JCL for IBM z/OS on Mainframe

• Good knowledge of IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS)

• Basic knowledge of Horizont IWS Graph, BatchCP, BatchAD & XINFO

• Very good English language skills (written and spoken)

• Incident and change management skills with understanding of SLAs

• Strong analytical and solution-oriented approach to work

• Experience delivering high-quality and resilient infrastructure changes

• Knowledge of automation, continuous integration, and system monitoring

• Experience ensuring operational compliance and service reliability

• Strong communication and teamwork skills

  
  

It is a strong plus if you have:

• Knowledge of German language (spoken)

• Experience working with collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence

We offer you:

ITDS Business Consultants is involved in many various, innovative and professional IT projects for international companies in the financial industry in Europe. We offer an environment for professional, ambitious, and driven people. The offer includes:

• Stable and long-term cooperation with very good conditions 

• Enhance your skills and develop your expertise in the financial industry

• Work on the most strategic projects available in the market

• Define your career roadmap and develop yourself in the best and fastest possible way by delivering strategic projects for different clients of ITDS over several years

• Participate in Social Events, training, and work in an international environment

• Access to attractive Medical Package

• Access to Multisport Program

• Access to Pluralsight

• Flexible hours & remote work

Internal job number #8007

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