Mainframe Consultant

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. 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