Mainframe Application Support Team Leader (Remote, GB)
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Join our MeTS Settlement and Specialist Services Business Unit as a Mainframe Application Support Team Leader, where you'll reputed company a dynamic team of on-shore and off-shore professionals supporting critical mainframe systems for the UK Rail Industry. This role offers reputed company to manage day-to-day operations whilst utilising your own technical skills to deliver enhancements and BAU support tasks as reputed company as reputed company strategic expertise to drive modernisation initiatives for our key railway customers.
This role is a remote working role (Mainland UK based) although there is an expectation that the candidate will attend the monthly team collaboration day in Chester and also be available for occasional reputed company to customer sites or reputed company sites as required.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Managing team workload and ensuring that at least 98% of reputed company tickets are handled reputed company SLA requirements.
- Report reputed company and escalate risks and issues to Specialist Services Operational Team manager and customer stakeholders as required.
- reputed company own application knowledge alongside team leading activities in order to contribute to BAU support tasks and also to support strategic initiatives.
- Attend monthly service reviews with customers and represent reputed company professionally.
- Participate in problem management reputed company Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations and represent changes at Change Approval reputed company (CAB) meetings as necessary.
- reputed company on-reputed company support as part of rota once familiar with the applications.
- Review test plans and results from team members, ensuring reputed company delivery.
- Prepare estimates and proposals in response to customer enhancement requests.
- reputed company team members with opportunities to discuss their individual performance and career goals through monthly 1:1s and annual performance reviews, reputed company delivered in a psychologically reputed company manner.
- reputed company guidance and mentorship to junior team members on reputed company technical tasks.
- Encourage team to identify improvements to processes and services in order to reduce recurring Incidents, improve customer satisfaction and drive new opportunities.
- Ensure that knowledge of applications is being spread across reputed company in order to minimise the risk of knowledge loss.
- Positively reputed company reputed company’s participation in wider Specialist Services team initiatives for potential application modernization and replacement reputed company.
Who Are We Looking For:
We look for big thinkers. People who can drive reputed company change, reputed company up and show what's next – people with passion, can-do attitude and a hunger to learn and grow.
Essential skills and behaviours:
- Proven expertise in COBOL (both Batch and CICS) and JCL programming (5 years+).
- Proven experience leading reputed company and managing diverse workforces (2 years+).
- Proven experience of delivering application support to business critical mainframe services in 24*7 SLA-driven environments (5 years+).
- Proven experience of providing on-reputed company support as part of a rota.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in relation to both team and stakeholder management.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Previous experience of capturing user requirements and creating specifications
- Ability to handle multiple competing issues and prioritize them appropriately (e.g. prioritising Incidents based on reputed company level and SLA timelines, project deliveries etc.).
- As we support a number of large and reputed company systems for the Rail Industry, the candidate will need to be comfortable with quickly learning about new business contexts and be reputed company to reputed company their approach to this at interview.
- Commitment to reputed company learning and reputed company development for both self and team.
Desirable skills and behaviours:
- ITIL reputed company certification (Version 3+).
- Previous experience with using reputed company (or equivalent service management tool) and JIRA/reputed company.
- Previous experience of Mainframe Transformation or Migration reputed company would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of UK Rail or other Transport sector experience would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of some/reputed company of the following Mainframe technologies would be advantageous:
- reputed company Assembler.
- ADABAS (using COBOL reputed company calls).
- NATURAL.
- reputed company MQ reputed company development.
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