Senior Principal Lead Architect Engineer Automation

Position: Senior Principal Lead Architect Engineer Workload Automation
Must Have Technical/Functional Skill

• DB2 administration experience, including High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR); familiarity with Oracle/Postgres and SQL.

• Experience with TWS/IWS integrations and APIs (REST/SOAP), event-based scheduling, and real-time/on-demand workload patterns.

• Experience with Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console (TDWC/TDWB) and critical path monitoring.

• Experience integrating file transfer solutions (e.g., SFTP/PGP/GPG, managed file transfer platforms) into batch workflows.

• Experience with SAP and other enterprise application integrations via TWS extended agents.

• Experience building dashboards/metrics and integrating with observability platforms (e.g., Grafana/Graphite).

• Experience defining platform standards, leading upgrades/migrations, and coordinating cross-team delivery

(e.g., change windows, cutovers, rollback planning).

• Familiarity with cloud patterns and automation (e.g., infrastructure-as-code concepts, container/VM scheduling considerations)

in support of workload modernization.

• Hands-on experience across ITSM processes (Incident, Problem, Change, Knowledge) in an enterprise environment.

• Service Now experience, including incident lifecycle management, documentation standards, and reporting.

• Working knowledge of ITIL concepts and IT service management best practices.

• Artificial Intelligence Navigating all the AI APP know how to communicate with it and know when not to use it when it does not meet your or

the companies expectations

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to investigate issues and drive resolution.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a high-volume, high-urgency operations environment.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including confident facilitation on conference bridges.

• Able to write and review technical documentation and knowledge articles.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture for the TWS/IWS platform (components, topology, environments, integrations), including standards, patterns,

and reference implementations.

• Provide technical oversight for additional (3rd-party) job scheduling platforms where used; establish operating standards, integration patterns,

and support processes to ensure consistent controls and reliability.

• Lead enterprise-scale installations, upgrades, and migrations; define cutover/rollback strategies, coordinate change windows,

and ensure readiness across dependent teams.

• Lead assessments of legacy scheduler instances and batch frameworks to identify candidates for retirement, consolidation, or migration;

produce target-state recommendations, sequencing/roadmaps, and risk-based migration plans.

• Define reliability engineering practices for workload automation: availability targets, capacity planning, performance tuning, monitoring/alerting,

and continuous improvement.

• Design and validate high-availability and disaster recovery solutions (including DB2 HADR where applicable); plan and execute regular DR tests

and remediate gaps.

• Establish governance for workload onboarding and job design: scheduling standards, dependency modeling, naming conventions, calendars,

critical path optimization, and SLA/SLO management.

• Architect and product ionize automation for platform operations and self-service (e.g., provisioning, reporting, batch controls) using shell/Python/Perl

and enterprise tooling.

• Own security and compliance posture: access model (LDAP/SSO), least-privilege controls, audit evidence, vulnerability remediation,

and secure configuration baselines.

• Manage and develop two teams (e.g., platform engineering and operations): set priorities and operating rhythms, oversee delivery

and support outcomes, coach/mentor team members, and drive performance management in partnership with leadership.

• Be available for major outages and critical events related to job scheduling, including QEND activities up to four (4) times per fiscal year,

providing incident leadership, stakeholder communications, and post-incident follow-up.

• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide after-hours/weekend support as needed to maintain scheduling availability and meet business SLAs.

• Support a…