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Mainframe Storage Architect (Individual Contributor) * Duties to include collaborating with others, designing, developing, and setting strategy for mainframe storage architecture in a large, diverse ...

Mainframe Storage Architect (Individual Contributor) * Duties to include collaborating with others, designing, developing, and setting strategy for mainframe storage architecture in a large, diverse ...

Mainframe Storage Architect (Individual Contributor) * Duties to include collaborating with others, designing, developing, and setting strategy for mainframe storage architecture in a large, diverse ...

Mainframe

Wilson, NC

$42.75 - $55/hr

Practical experience in Mainframe Storage z/OS, DFSMS, DFHSM, DFDSS, ICF CATALOG Rexx / ACS routines, Test and Activate SMS configuration DFhsm, - maintenance / re-org/ Audit / Migrate / Backups ...

... storage, networking, security, and automation. • Drive best practices in Mainframe System administration, software upgrades, capacity planning, and disaster recovery. • Lead root cause analysis ...

... storage, networking, security, and automation. • Drive best practices in Mainframe System administration, software upgrades, capacity planning, and disaster recovery. • Lead root cause analysis ...

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How much do mainframe storage jobs pay per hour?

As of Sep 13, 2026, the average hourly pay for mainframe storage in the United States is $53.38, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $47.12 and $60.58 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a mainframe storage?

A Mainframe Storage job involves managing, optimizing, and ensuring the availability of storage systems in a mainframe environment. Professionals in this role work with storage hardware, software, and backup solutions to maintain data integrity and performance. Responsibilities typically include storage provisioning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery planning. A strong understanding of storage management tools like DFSMS, DFHSM, and tape or disk storage technologies is essential. This role is critical for ensuring efficient data access, security, and compliance within an organization’s IT infrastructure.

What are the typical daily responsibilities of a mainframe storage specialist?

As a Mainframe Storage specialist, your daily tasks typically involve monitoring storage utilization, performing data backups and restores, managing storage allocations, and troubleshooting performance issues. You’ll regularly interact with other IT professionals such as system administrators, application teams, and network engineers to coordinate storage needs and resolve incidents. Staying proactive with capacity planning and implementing security protocols are integral parts of the role. By maintaining optimal storage performance and availability, you play a crucial part in ensuring business operations run smoothly.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in the mainframe storage position, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Mainframe Storage professional, you should possess strong knowledge of mainframe storage systems, data management, and backup/recovery procedures, typically backed by experience with enterprise storage technologies. Familiarity with tools like IBM DFSMS, SAN/NAS management interfaces, and certifications such as IBM Certified Specialist are commonly required. Analytical thinking, attention to detail, and effective communication are standout soft skills in this field. These abilities are crucial for ensuring data integrity, minimizing downtime, and collaborating with IT teams to meet business continuity goals.

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Mainframe Senior Storage Architect

Jersey City, NJ • On-site

Ghr
Recruiting and Staffing Services • 51 - 200 employees

$140K - $205K/yr

Full-time

PTO

Posted 24 days ago


Key responsibilities

  • Designs and develops mainframe storage architecture, including storage disk, engineering, and virtual tape.

  • Collaborates with stakeholders to define the solution intent, architecture vision, and non-functional requirements for storage solutions.

  • Performs design and code reviews to ensure storage solutions meet security, performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.


Job description

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions, and contributing to the architecture roadmap.

Responsibilities:

  • Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services

  • Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates

  • Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments

  • Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable

  • Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions

  • Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products

  • Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)

  • Mainframe Storage Architect (Individual Contributor)

  • Duties to include collaborating with others, designing, developing, and setting strategy for mainframe storage architecture in a large, diverse, dynamic, and exciting storage environment. Responsibilities will span mainframe storage disk, engineering, and virtual tape.

Required Qualifications:

  • 10 + Years experience leading and managing multiple competing and dynamic deliverables with Mainframe Storage

  • 10 + Years experience and skills to include:

    • Storage Architecture

      • Encryption

      • Fiber protocols and configuration

      • FICON

      • HCD/IOCP

      • I/O Performance (DASD, Switches, Virtual Tape)

      • Refreshes/upgrades (inclusive of Brocade directors/switches, Hitachi DASD, and IBM Virtual Tape (TS7700s))

      • Storage Area Network (SAN) replication design and configuration

    • Capacity (inclusive of network/switches)

    • Cost benefit analysis/consolidation/reduction

    • Design and Planning of Data Center Moves

      • Inclusive of data center role swaps (prod to contingency/disaster recovery and back)

      • Disaster Recovery Exercises

  • Ability to lead and set direction under minimal supervision

  • Ability to exercise judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criterion for obtaining results

Skills:

  • Analytical Thinking

  • Architecture

  • Result Orientation

  • Solution Design

  • Technical Strategy Development

  • Application Development

  • Collaboration

  • Data Management

  • DevOps Practices

  • Risk Management

  • Agile Practices

  • Automation

  • Influence

  • Solution Delivery Process

  • Test Engineering

Hours Per Week:

40

Travel Required:

Yes, 5% of the time

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US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)Pay and benefits informationPay range$140,500.00 - $205,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.Discretionary incentive eligibleThis role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.BenefitsThis role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.