Job Summary:
Kyndryl is a company that designs, builds, manages, and modernizes mission-critical technology systems. They are seeking a Mainframe Job Scheduling Engineer to manage and maintain enterprise batch scheduling environments, ensuring the correct execution of batch jobs and workflows across multiple systems.
Responsibilities:
• Manage and maintain enterprise batch scheduling environments using CA7 and/or TWS
• Define, schedule, and monitor batch jobs, calendars, and workflows across multiple LPARs
• Configure job dependencies (time-based, event-based, predecessor/successor relationships) to ensure correct execution sequencing
• Troubleshoot scheduling issues, including delays, dependency failures, and system constraints
• Implement and maintain scheduling standards, naming conventions, and operational procedures
• Coordinate with application, infrastructure, and operations teams for batch cycle changes
• Perform schedule simulation and validation before production deployment
• Manage special scheduling requirements such as time zones, daylight savings, and regional variations
• Maintain housekeeping jobs (archive, cleanup, backups, reporting) to ensure scheduler stability
• Document scheduling processes, workflows, and recovery procedures
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of experience in mainframe batch scheduling / production control
• Proven experience handling critical batch cycles in enterprise environments
• Strong hands-on experience with: CA7 Workload Automation, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS)
• Solid knowledge of: IBM z/OS, JES2/3, SDSF, JCL (Job Control Language), Batch processing and job lifecycle management
• Understanding of: Job dependencies, triggers, calendars, and scheduling cycles, Dataset/resource contention handling
• Experience in: Production support and incident management (ServiceNow or equivalent), Monitoring tools and alert handling
Preferred:
• Experience with other schedulers (Control-M, ESP, Autosys)
• Knowledge of REXX or automation scripting
• Exposure to mainframe modernization or DevOps initiatives
• Understanding of enterprise batch environments in banking/financial systems
• Exposure to high-volume batch processing and regulatory workloads
• Experience with batch automation with webbase workflows
• Experience with Batch Optimization projects
Company:
Kyndryl is an information technology and services company. Founded in 2021, the company is headquartered in New City, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.