Senior Technical Lead

ROLE 

BAND 

TECH STACK 

EXPERIENCE 

TYPE 

Mainframe Lead 

E2.2 

Mainframe 

10+ Years 

Full-time 

Technical Design & Delivery 

•  Own detailed design for mainframe components, interfaces and enhancements within the agreed architecture. 

•  Break down requirements into technical tasks, estimates, sequencing and clear acceptance criteria. 

•  Deliver hands-on development for complex or high-risk components alongside the team. 

•  Ensure designs meet performance, security, reliability and maintainability expectations. 

Team Leadership 

•  Guide a team of developers on design decisions, coding standards and technical approach. 

•  Run code reviews, design walkthroughs, defect triage and technical knowledge sharing. 

•  Mentor engineers, support onboarding and build depth across the mainframe skill set. 

Quality & Operations 

•  Define and enforce unit, integration and regression testing expectations for the team. 

•  Own build, release and deployment readiness including rollback and verification steps. 

•  Drive defect prevention, root-cause analysis and permanent fixes over workarounds. 

Collaboration & Governance 

•  Work with architects, business analysts, QA, DevOps and support teams across the delivery lifecycle. 

•  Participate in agile ceremonies, planning, estimation and dependency management. 

•  Maintain technical documentation, standards and reusable assets for the team. 

•  Design, develop and support COBOL/CICS/DB2 batch and online components within agreed standards. 

•  Optimize batch windows, DB2 access paths and resource consumption to protect service levels. 

•  Support mainframe modernization, API exposure and integration with distributed and cloud platforms. 

Core Skills 

COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 and z/OS utilities; batch and online program design and optimization. 

Design & Architecture 

Mainframe application architecture, modularization, API enablement and modernization/coexistence patterns. 

Data & Integration 

DB2 and VSAM data design, SQL tuning, file handling, data conversion, integrity and reconciliation. 

Platform & DevOps 

z/OS operations, scheduling, change management, environment promotion and mainframe-to-distributed integration. 

Quality & Operations 

Unit and regression testing, batch cycle validation, performance and MIPS optimization, defect RCA. 

Experience & Qualifications 

•  10+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering with strong mainframe expertise. 

•  Demonstrated experience leading small to mid-sized technical teams through full delivery cycles. 

•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience. 

•  Relevant platform or cloud certifications advantageous, not mandatory. 

Leadership & Behavioural 

•  Ownership and accountability for team technical outcomes. 

•  Practical problem solving with a bias for clean, sustainable solutions. 

•  Clear communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders. 

•  Coaching mindset and collaborative working style. 

Location-Specific Expectations 

•  Collaborate from an India delivery location with stakeholders across regions and time zones. 

•  Ensure standards, decisions and reusable patterns are documented and adopted across distributed squads. 

•  Support virtual workshops, technical governance and production-readiness reviews. 

Key Deliverables & Success Measures 

•  Detailed designs, estimates and technical plans agreed with architecture and delivery leads. 

•  High-quality, reviewed and tested code delivered to agreed timelines. 

•  Stable releases with low defect leakage and effective production handover. 

•  Improved team capability, engineering consistency and reusable assets. 

•  Timely escalation and resolution of technical risks and blockers.