Lead PL/I Design and Development Consultant

Whizdom ·whizdom.shazamme.com

Location Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Type Full time
Level Lead
Source Shazamme
Information & Communication Technology (ICT)
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Lead PL/I Design & Development Consultant

  • Circa. $650 per day including super
  • Location: Any Australian location
  • Working holiday visa holders and candidates without local experience are welcome to apply
We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on PL/I consultant to support a major database migration for a financial services organisation. You will lead complex design and development work, provide technical assurance, and help an established team solve demanding engineering challenges.

Key responsibilities

  • Lead technical analysis and detailed design for complex PL/I application changes.
  • Develop high-risk PL/I components and analyse large online, batch and integration codebases.
  • Lead troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and performance tuning.
  • Review designs and code, identify technical risks, and support testing and implementation readiness.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership and practical knowledge transfer to the development team.
Essential experience

  • Extensive enterprise PL/I design and development experience on IBM mainframes.
  • Career depth typically associated with 20+ years in complex mainframe environments.
  • Strong experience across major PL/I development, migration, remediation or modernisation initiatives.
  • Deep practical knowledge of VSAM and IBM MQ.
  • Proven ability to safely modify large, complex legacy applications and resolve difficult online, batch, data and integration issues.
  • Hands-on technical leadership, design assurance and code review experience.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable

  • Db2, CICS and high-volume transaction processing.
  • Banking, insurance or another regulated industry.
  • Complex financial calculations, batch processing, reconciliation or regulatory processing.
  • Legacy database migration and mainframe diagnostic tools.
Apply now to bring your PL/I expertise to a technically significant migration program.

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The Lead PL/I Design and Development Consultant role with Whizdom is based in Sydney, NSW, AU.
Is the Lead PL/I Design and Development Consultant role full-time or contract?
This is a full time position at Whizdom.
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