Job Description

Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers and our customers’ customers to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.

What You'll Do

Are you passionate about Mainframes and z/OS? Do you thrive as a key member of an Empowered Team? Join us as a Staff Systems Design Engineer and play a pivotal role in sustaining stable and reliable Mainframe environments in support of Teradata Product testing and certification.

• Install, customize, maintain, and upgrade z/OS including LPARs and commonly used tools and middleware (IBM and 3rd party)
• Manage and automate z/OS administration tasks including security (Ex: RACF), health checks, user access and a virtual tape library
• Serve as a technical lead on Mainframe projects, integrations, and business continuity readiness
• Drive Operational Excellence into environments
• Participate in day-to-day operations using Jira (Ex: incidents, problems, changes, service requests)
• Participate in off-hours support as needed for critical support / incidents
• Participate in periodic off-hour meetings with geographically dispersed team members to ensure success within Engineering Shared Services and related projects
• Propose process improvements for R&D operations that result in reduced processing times, simplified architectures, and/or improve quality / security
• Elicit requirements from stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Extract data from environments for dashboarding, decision-making and automation
• Create and maintain logical diagrams and support documentation

Who You'll Work With

Engineering Shared Services (ESS) enables product innovation, discovery, and accelerated delivery value through automation and by providing developer tooling, environments and data insights & intelligence to our Product Engineering leaders and teams.

What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

• Bachelor's degree in a Technology or related field
• Minimum of 5-7 years of z/OS systems programmer experience planning, installing, configuring, customizing, maintaining, and integrating the base elements of the OS including the BCP, JES2, TSO/E, ISPF, z/OS UNIX, SMP/E, z/OSMF, HCD, and/or ICSF
• Time management and organizational skills
• Adapts to change with workloads, processes, business needs, and company culture
• Exhibits a mindset for process improvement and automation that results in customer satisfaction and business value
• Drives solutions adoption (From Design to Implementation to User Acceptance)
• Demonstrated Technical Qualifications Supportinghighly available mainframe systems for a global user community
• Automating of z/OS operations
• Capacity planning for mainframe hardware and software as well as Business Continuity
• Performance tuning mainframes, determining root cause and optimizing resources
• Integration-testing
• Migrating to newer generation IBM Z processors

What You'll Bring

• Team player who: Collaborates and shares knowledge with other team members and cross-functional teams, both local or geographically dispersed
• Delivers on team commitments
• Technical Leader who: Communicates effectively and manages the expectations of others, e.g., team members, management, developers
• z/VM
• RACF
• DFSMS, VSAM, Master and User catalog structures, Communications Server, WLM, DASD space management
• 3rd party products including Db2, CICS Transaction Server, MQ, CA-1, CA Disk, and TMON
• Team City, Jenkins
• Atlassian Cloud - Jira and Confluence

Why We Think You'll Love Teradata

We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are committedto actively workingto foster an inclusive environment that celebrates peoplefor all of who they are.

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