Mainframe Leader

Job Description
Position Type :

Full time Type Of Hire :

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education) Education Desired :

Bachelor of Computer Science Travel Percentage :

1 - 5%
Job Description
Job Posting DescriptionAre you ready to unleash your full potential? We’re looking for people who are passionate about payments to chart Worldpay’s path to being the largest and most-loved payments company in the world.
About the team
Worldpay powers 2.2 trillion payments annually across 146 countries in over 135 separate currencies with over a million-merchants supported globally. Worldpay is the largest acquirer by volume globally, we provide a reliable, secure, and scalable payments platform 24x7 365 day a year.
Being part of the 200 strong Infrastructure Services organization, you’ll help to engineer and deliver the core infrastructure services that power our payments platform. We’re responsible for running some very critical systems, maintaining over 50,000 MIPS of mainframe compute across two production data centers.
We are looking for talented individuals to join the Infrastructure Services organization;
you’ll be a self-starter, possess an analytical mindset and be a change agent.
The Mainframe Systems team, part of the wider Infrastructure Services organization provides the operational systems management for the IBM zSeries infrastructure which hosts some of our most critical applications in the payments eco-system.
What you will be doing
As the Systems Manager Senior, you’ll bring a depth of experience required to manage a critical and complex environment that has stringent uptime requirements to support our diverse payments platforms. Worldpay powers 2.2 trillion payments annually across 146 countries in over 135 separate currencies with over a million-merchant supported globally.
You’ll be leading a team of talented individuals who oversee daily operations for the zSeries infrastructure in North America, so as a senior leader you’ll possess great interpersonal and communication skills to bring the best out of your team. You’ll be adept at communicating with stakeholders within the organization, this will be a key part of for this role as our application teams reside outside the CIO organization.
15 Years+ managing zSeries Infrastructure within a financial services organization.
Deep technical experience of leading critical systems in a fast-paced environment.
Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
Ability to communicate at different levels.
Solid technical background.
Technical ownership of the service throughout its lifecycle
What you bring:
Leadership:
Establish and shape a growing team as it establishes itself in the Worldpay technology hierarchy
Change Agent:
Foster a culture of agility and risk management to accommodate the changing and adaptive nature of the Worldpay business.
Self-starter:
assumes responsibility and ownership for successful completion of activities
Analytical Background:
collates and interprets various inputs to reach a logical and achievable solution.
Innovative:
actively identifies new areas of technology &
learning for potential application within Worldpay
Thought leader:
capable of driving diverse technology stakeholders to a common understanding and agreement on technology product selection, implementation, maintenance, and retirement.
Added bonus if you have:
Z/OS:
operating system, utilities, TSO/E, REXX, DR/DRE – expert knowledge
Middleware:
CICS, MQ, Db2 – expert knowledge
Rocket/ASG TMON:
expert knowledge
SMP/E:
advanced knowledge
Payments Processing:
Authorization, Settlement, Billing, SLA attainment – advanced knowledge
Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS):
advanced knowledge
Linux/LinuxOne:
knowledge
What we offer you
A competitive salary and benefits
A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities
The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in the payment industry.
Time to support charities and give back in your community.
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