Accenture

Mainframe Workload Automation Analyst

Accenture$60K — $110K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with IBM TWS and IBM ZWS on z/OS.
  • Strong knowledge of mainframe batch processing, JCL, and z/OS.
  • Experience in supporting mission-critical 24/7 environments.
  • Proven troubleshooting skills in complex scheduling and batch-flow issues.
  • Experience with mainframe disaster recovery planning and execution.
  • Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related discipline.

Responsibilities

  • Provide Level 3 support for IBM TWS/ZWS in complex mainframe environments.
  • Design, maintain, and optimize job schedules, calendars, and dependencies.
  • Monitor daily batch cycles and troubleshoot issues to meet SLAs.
  • Install, configure, upgrade, and support TWS/ZWS components and agents.
  • Analyze scheduling failures and implement preventative fixes.
  • Optimize batch performance through workload balancing and automation.
  • Ensure compliance with security, audit, and operational standards.

Benefits

  • 24x7 on-call production support responsibilities.
  • Opportunity to act as a subject matter expert in workload automation.
  • Mentorship role available for junior staff.
  • Potential involvement in mainframe disaster recovery planning.
Full Job Description

You are:
An experienced Mainframe Workload Automation Analyst.

The Work:
As a member of the Infrastructure and Operations team, you will be focused on IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler / IBM Z Workload Scheduler support and optimization for enterprise batch and online scheduling environments. Acting as a technical SME for scheduling and automation.

The role also provides 24x7 on-call production support and handles software maintenance, upgrades, and physical disk space (DASD) management across both mainframe and Windows Server environments.

  • Provide Level 3 support for IBM TWS/ZWS in complex mainframe environments.

  • Design, maintain, and optimize job schedules, calendars, dependencies, and critical paths.

  • Monitor daily batch cycles and resolve issues to ensure SLA compliance.

  • Install, configure, upgrade, and support TWS/ZWS components and agents.

  • Analyze scheduling failures, delays, and bottlenecks; implement preventative fixes.

  • Optimize batch performance through workload balancing, automation, and capacity planning.

  • Ensure security, audit, and operational compliance.

  • Act as a workload automation SME and mentor junior staff.

  • Mainframe Disaster Recovery (MVSODR).

This role will require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office. Preferred location: Mississauga

English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speakingstakeholders across Canada. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with theseEnglish-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible toreorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

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Heres what you need:

  • A minimum of 5 years hands-on experience with IBM TWS and IBM ZWS on z/OS.

  • Strong understanding of mainframe batch processing, JCL, and z/OS concepts.

  • Experience supporting mission-critical 247 environments.

  • Proven ability to troubleshoot complex scheduling, dependency, and batch-flow issues

  • Demonstrated experience with mainframe disaster recovery planning and execution.

  • Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.

  • Bachelors degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

Bonus Points if:

  • Distributed workload automation integration.

  • CICS or DB2 batch dependency knowledge.

  • Mainframe scripting or DevOps exposure.

  • IBM Workload Scheduler certifications.

  • Banking, insurance, or regulated-environment experience.


Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.


The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.

The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.


Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario $60,350 to $110,350

About Accenture

Accenture plc is a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. The company has more than 537,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries. Accenture operates across five business segments: Communications, Media & Technology; Financial Services; Health & Public Service; Products; and Resources. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has offices worldwide.
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