Lead PL/I Design and Development Consultant - Melbourne

AYAN InfoTech is looking for Lead PL/I Design and Development Consultant to join an exciting project based in Melbourne. The role offers you the opportunity to contribute towards an extremely well structured and mature environment, working on sophisticated enhancement projects.

Role: Lead PL/I Design and Development Consultant

Location: Melbourne

Contract Duration: 6 Months with high possible extensions

Experience: 7+ Years

Job Summary:

We require a highly experienced, hands on PL/I design and development consultant to provide technical leadership to the existing development team.

Team comprises experienced former COBOL developers who have approximately three to four years' experience developing and supporting the PL/I based ManTec application. The consultant will complement the team by bringing substantial experience from significant PL/I initiatives and deep expertise in complex application design, development, troubleshooting and performance tuning.

This is not a production support, routine maintenance or general development capacity role. The consultant will lead complex technical analysis and design, work hands on with the code, provide technical assurance, and help the existing team resolve the most demanding engineering challenges.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical analysis and detailed design of complex PL/I application changes.
• Establish practical design and development approaches for the Phoenix solution.
• Undertake hands on development of complex or high risk PL/I components.
• Analyse large and complex existing PL/I codebases, including online, batch and integration processing.
• Lead complex troubleshooting, root cause analysis and performance tuning activities.
• Review technical designs and code produced by the development team.
• Identify technical risks, design weaknesses and potential implementation issues.
• Work collaboratively with the development team to resolve complex engineering problems.
• Support technical estimation, development planning, testing, implementation and production readiness activities.
• Provide technical leadership while strengthening the team's PL/I capability through practical knowledge transfer.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Extensive commercial experience designing and developing enterprise applications in PL/I on IBM mainframe platforms.
• A career depth typically associated with 20 or more years of relevant mainframe application experience, preferably within banking, insurance or a similarly complex regulated environment.
• Demonstrated experience delivering significant PL/I development, migration, remediation or modernisation initiatives.
• Substantial hands on involvement across solution design, detailed technical design, build, testing, implementation, troubleshooting and tuning.
• Deep technical knowledge of VSAM, including complex file structures, access patterns, performance, concurrency, integrity and recoverability.
• Deep practical knowledge of IBM MQ, including application integration, message processing, exception handling, diagnostics and performance.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and safely modify large, complex and potentially poorly documented legacy applications.
• Strong diagnostic and problem solving capability across online, batch, data access and integration processing.
• Experience providing hands on technical leadership, design assurance and code review within an established development team.
• Ability to work effectively with experienced developers without duplicating responsibilities or operating purely as an adviser.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the production of clear technical designs and implementation guidance.

Please note we will be able to contact only shortlisted candidates for this role. We thank you in advance for your interest.