Senior Mainframe Expert

3 weeks ago


Franklin, Wisconsin, United States Northwestern Mutual Full time
Northwestern Mutual Overview

Northwestern Mutual is a leading life insurance, financial planning, and investment company that prioritizes its employees. As a mutual company, we don't have shareholders, so instead of reporting to Wall Street, we report directly to our policyowners.

We are seeking an experienced Senior System Programmer for CICS/MQ who will oversee critical infrastructure supporting 85% of our business. This hands-on role involves configuring and maintaining products and services according to standards and policies. The ideal candidate should have expertise in installation, configuration, maintenance, and monitoring of CICS regions, MQ products, and related ISV products, with z/OS Connect and TableBase being a plus.

About the Role

As a CICS System Administrator, you will work on critical systems and strategic projects across various business divisions, technology, and process service improvements. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Configuring and maintaining CICS regions, MQ products, and related ISV products.
  • Monitoring system hardware and software for performance degradation, connectivity issues, and system events.
  • Resolving application system performance bottlenecks and ensuring SLAs are maintained.
  • Providing consultative services to infrastructure and application teams on project work, POCs, and troubleshooting exercises.
  • Participating in pager rotation for 24x7 support and contributing to team agile ceremonies.


Required Skills and Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should possess the following skills and qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years professional experience required, including 3 years of IT experience and 3 years of experience with at least one OS/hosting platform.
  • Experience with performance tuning of application stacks, OSs, DBs, etc., Cloud-based PaaS and SaaS platforms, integration points to On-Prem infrastructure, virtualization, containerization, and scripting development.
  • Strong networking knowledge and experience with Identity Platform and tools.
  • Familiarity with Infra as Code concepts, tooling, CICD concepts, GIT, branching strategies, and leveraging knowledge to deliver infrastructure as a product.


Benefits and Career Growth

Northwestern Mutual offers a competitive salary range of $120,000 - $180,000 per year, depending on location and experience, plus benefits such as medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and education assistance. We prioritize employee growth and provide opportunities for career advancement, training, and professional development.

Join our team and become part of a dynamic organization that values innovation, collaboration, and customer satisfaction.

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