Director, Mainframe Innovation Engineering

Lead and Build at the Core of the Enterprise.

Your expertise was forged on the IBM Z platform and you remain endlessly inspired by its evolution and value to the world. You stepped into leadership not to leave the keyboard behind, but to amplify your impact—thriving on guiding a small innovation team by building right alongside them.

This isn't consulting. Your mission is to forge foundational, productized solutions with mainframe at the core for our operations and digital teams to deliver at scale. You'll get hands-on building the critical APIs, developer tools, and data-driven insights our clients depend on. You'll get to build differentiating IP for the world's top MSP.

You will collaborate with Product Managers, business stakeholders, Operations, and external partners to deliver the engineering in line with the overall Product Management vision, roadmap and priorities. You will report directly to the SVP of Products.

As a practitioner-leader, you are fluent in Python, JSON, and REXX, and you see Generative AI as a practical tool to multiply your team's impact. If you are a leader who builds the foundational products that power the enterprise, this is your moment.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide inspiration and direction for multiple engineers developing mainframe-related solutions that leverage the latest mainframe software and infrastructure capabilities but also integrate with non-mainframe capabilities.

• Stay updated on the latest trends and innovations in mainframe and mainframe-connected technology use cases and domains, and identify opportunities for innovation and optimization

• Provide architectural thought leadership and creativity, leading the evaluation and testing of technology choices and approaches in support of the product roadmap, ensuring what is built meets the intended client experience and acceptance criteria defined by Product Management

• Drive the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions, ensuring alignment with product requirements, customer needs, and release timelines.

• Manage the engineering team, including hiring, training, mentoring, and performance evaluation to support the team in doing their best work

• Establish and nurture best practices, standards, and policies for development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle

• Communicate effectively with senior management, peers, and customers on initiatives, issues, risks, and solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• At least 18 years of experience in mainframe systems programming, with at least 7 years of experience in a managerial or leadership role

• Expert knowledge of mainframe architectures, technologies, configurations, system outputs, and common scripting frameworks such as Python, JSON, and REXX

• Strong understanding of the mainframe system telemetry outputs like SMF, SCRT, IBM zSAM and logs, and integration patterns like REST APIs, SQL queries and XML.

• Excellent communication, critical-thinking, collaboration, and analytical problem-solving and prioritization skills

• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple projects and deadlines

• Proven track record of having engineered mainframe platform and digital features that have met the customer needs where scale of adoption spans a group of customers with similar needs.

• Hands-on experience or certifications with technologies such as Snowflake, S3, containers, Ansible are plus.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to caste, colour, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, HIV status, or any other status protected by law. Candidates with disabilities who require accommodations during the recruitment process are encouraged to contact our Talent Acquisition team to place a request.