Senior Technical Lead
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 27, 2026.
Job Summary
ROLE
BAND
TECH STACK
EXPERIENCE
TYPE
Mainframe Lead
E2.2
Mainframe
10+ Years
Full-time
Role Purpose
Lead the design, development and delivery of mainframe solutions, owning technical quality for the team: translating requirements into robust designs, guiding engineers day to day, and ensuring predictable, secure and maintainable delivery into production.
Key Responsibilities
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.
Technology Focus - Mainframe
Key Responsibilities
Technology Focus - Mainframe
- 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.
Required Technical Competencies
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
- Work from the Curitiba delivery location with local customer stakeholders and global teams.
- Participate in on-site and virtual workshops, design reviews and governance forums.
- Effective communication in a multi-country model, with overlap into European and Indian working hours.
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.