Role: IWA Technical Lead
Location: Chicago, IL 60607
2nd Preference: Remote
W2 Position
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| IBM TWS DWC | |
| IBM Mainframe Utilities | |
| IBM DB2 DBA | |
| IBM DevOps suite of tools | |
| IBM SA for z/OS | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
1. Expert knowledge on IWA Scheduling and admin (IWA/TWS/IWS all these are referred to same tool)
2. Own the full lifecycle of TWS/IWA objects: jobs, job streams, dependencies, calendars, and resources.
3. Scripting, DB query expertise.
Job Description/ Responsibilities:
Product & Platform Knowledge
Maintain expert-level, current knowledge of IWA, including version-specific functionality and upgrade implications.
Maintain a working overview of the business applications hosted on and dependent on the IWA-managed servers, including how scheduling failures translate into business impact.
Batch Scheduling & Job Management
Own the full lifecycle of TWS/IWA objects: jobs, job streams, dependencies, calendars, and resources.
Direct the creation, configuration, and scheduling of batch jobs, including application-specific job types.
Enforce and maintain folder structure and naming convention standards across the environment.
Maintain and update IWA calendars and event rule configurations.
Maintain and govern the service catalogue(s) for scheduled jobs and workflows.
Environment & Release Management
Lead job migrations to higher environments using WAT and Composer commands, ensuring alignment between staging and production configurations.
Coordinate and oversee pre- and post-maintenance activities in partnership with the monitoring team, including validation checks before returning environments to production status.
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