Mainframe Consultant

Role PurposeLead 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 ResponsibilitiesTechnical 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. 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. 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