zSolutions Delivery Consultant

Introduction
Have you ever thought about assisting IT operations teams to use automation to help detect events and anomalies to identify and resolve issues faster?
Are you ready to start working with complex IT environments and support large companies in helping to ensure the availability of their applications and system resources?

If yes then join IBM Global Delivery Center Team in Krakow Poland!

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a System Automation #SA Migration Deployment zSolutions Delivery Consultant you will experience how we apply technical expertise to ensure world-class delivery using consultative skills such as problem-solving / hypothesis-based methodologies communication and service orientation skills. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs Global Delivery Center #GDC you will be client focused courageous pragmatic and technical to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.

To help achieve this win-win outcome a ‘day-in-the-life’ in this role may include but not be limited to…

• Understand clients’ main challenges and developing solutions that help them improve their systems management IT operations and operational security and resiliency by implementing IBM System Automation on their mainframe environment
• Perform automation migration services with IBM Systems Automation and demonstrating problem solving skills in replacing other mainframe automation products
• Provide estimates for migrations from automation products to the IBM solution investigating and analyzing information to draw conclusions regarding migration paths and activities and leading IBM internal customer and subcontractors teams
• Under minimal supervision leading in planning installing configuring verifying and migrating IBM Z solutions that use automation to help detect events and anomalies to identify and resolve issues faster within client’s environments
• Ensure accurate documentation of and delivery to the project scope and timeline alongside adherence to the products’ implementation methodologies
• Solve Client Challenges Effectively: Understanding clients’ main challenges and developing solutions that helps them reach true business value by working thru the phases of design development integration implementation migration and product support with a sense of urgency
• Conduct and participate in technical solution workshops
• Demonstrate a natural bias towards self-motivation curiosity and initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions

Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you’ll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products you’ll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business.
Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• B.S. in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience in Computer Science/Information Systems/Engineering.
• Technical Expertise in Mainframe System Software on z/OS including deployment and optimization of IBM Z software solutions z/OS data sources handling of SMF records and z/OS automation scripts
• Experience with Systems Automation and other mainframe automation packages such as CA/Broadcom OPS/MVS IBM AFOper and BMC AUTOOPERATOR
• Strong working knowledge of System Automation’s policy database (PDB).
• Experience with Netview for z/OS and Netview Pipes programming
• Knowledge/skills on z/OS System Programming
• 5+ years of experience with IBM Z (OS/390 z/OS) and proficient with TSO/ISPF REXX Programming System Automation and Netview for z/OS
• 5+ years of solution consulting or relevant industry experience
• Fluency in English and a 2nd European language – both verbal and written

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with reviewing the performance of monitoring environment infrastructures monitoring processes event flow and historical data collection polices
• Experience with CICS DB2 and IMS operational interfaces
• Experience with the following products: IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics (ZLDA) IBM Z Anomaly Analytics (IzAA) IBM Watson® Machine Learning for z/OS IBM Service Management Unite (SMU)