Sr. IBM Workload Automation Administrator

Description

This position will work on tax modernization in the platform's operations team as a part of the scheduling and automations team. Tax modernization is a multi-year project focused on modernizing the IT infrastructure and applications for the NYS tax department. One of the key components of that is modernizing the day-to-day operations through scheduling and automation.

Duties

• Administer, maintain, and support the IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) environment on IBM mainframe systems.
• Monitor daily workload processing to ensure scheduled jobs, job streams, and dependencies execute successfully and within established service levels.
• Configure, schedule, and manage batch workloads across enterprise applications and platforms.
• Analyse and resolve job failures, scheduling conflicts, resource contention, and workload bottlenecks.
• Perform workload forecasting, capacity planning, and schedule optimization to improve operational efficiency.
• Create, modify, and maintain job definitions, calendars, run cycles, workstations, and job streams.
• Support production batch processing, including incident response, troubleshooting, and recovery activities.
• Coordinate with application teams, system programmers, database administrators, and business units to implement scheduling requirements.
• Manage workload dependencies between mainframe and distributed systems.
• Develop and maintain scheduling standards, procedures, and operational documentation.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and workload restoration activities.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security, change management, and audit requirements.
• Utilize IBM Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) to monitor, manage, and administer enterprise workloads.
• Configure and maintain DWC dashboards, monitoring views, alerts, and reporting functions.
• Troubleshoot workload execution issues using DWC monitoring and diagnostic tools.
• Support end users and operations staff in the use of DWC scheduling and monitoring capabilities.
• Implement and maintain workload automation policies using DWC administrative functions.
• Generate workload status, performance, and operational reports for management and technical teams.
• Technical Support and Administration
• Perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and upgrades of IBM Workload Scheduler components.
• Manage scheduling agents, communication links, and workload automation infrastructure.
• Support integration between IWS and enterprise applications, databases, and middleware platforms.
• Implement workload automation best practices to improve reliability, availability, and performance.
• Conduct root cause analysis for recurring scheduling issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Participate in system testing, application deployments, and production implementation activities.

Mandatory Requirements

• Experience (14+ Years)
• Works in the field of Information Technology, experienced in the usage and support of a collection of development platforms, technical architectures or business applications and products that run on those platforms - beyond that of a Programmer.

Requirements

• This is an 100% Onsite.
• 84 months Experience using administering IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS/Tivoli Workload Scheduler) in a z/OS mainframe environment.
• 84 months Experience using and administering IBM Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) for workload administration and monitoring.
• 84 Months Experience Knowledge of IBM z/OS operations, JCL, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, and batch processing concepts.
• 60 Months Experience workload automation concepts including calendars, dependencies, critical paths, and event-driven scheduling.
• 60 Months Experience troubleshooting batch processing failures and performing production support.
• R sum
• Copy of Candidate Identification (i.e., Driver's License//Visa and Passport if applicable)
• Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications (i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.)