IBM Z Delivery Consultant
- ArmonkChicagoNew YorkResearch Triangle Park
- Consulting
- Professional
IBM Z Delivery Consultant
- ArmonkChicagoNew YorkResearch Triangle Park
- Consulting
- Professional
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Have you ever thought about assisting IT development teams to fight disruption and innovate faster, using agile practices to deliver hybrid applications via an automated pipeline?
If yes, then join our IBM Z and LinuxONE US Delivery Team!
As a DevOps IBM Z solutions Delivery Consultant, you will learn and 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 Infrastructure delivery team you will be client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical to optimize and trail-blaze 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
- Working under general supervision you will be understanding clients’ main challenges and developing solutions that help them transform mission-critical IBM Z applications for hybrid cloud environments with stability, security, and agility.
- Participating in planning, installing, configuring, verifying, and migrating IBM Z DevOps solutions that uses robust toolsets to develop and maintain z/OS applications.
- Ensuring accurate documentation of and delivery to the project scope and timeline alongside adherence to the zDevOps products’ implementation methodologies.
- Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, and initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team.
- Solving 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.
- Conducting and participating in technical solution workshops.
Excellent on-boarding 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.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
* Expert level Programming skills: COBOL and Java.
* Deep expertise and experience converting Cobol applications to Java on Z.
* Expertise with z/OS and sub-systems fundamentals (inc. CICS, Db2, z/OS Connect)
* Deep expertise in leading Z DevOps services engagements.
* Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills that are engaging, compelling and influential. Along with the ability to work independently and take accountability.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
* Knowledge of IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4z).
* Experience with the following products will be highly regarded: Developer for z/OS (IDz), Enterprise Edition (IDzEE), Application Delivery Foundation for z/OS (ADFz), Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI), IBM Z Development and Test (ZD&T) and IBM Virtual Dev and Test for z/OS (ZVDT).
* 10+ years of experience with IBM Z.
* 10+ years of solution consulting or relevant industry experience.
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