Technical Specialist Practitioner
Barclays · Posted Oct 22
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays is seeking a Technical Specialist Practitioner to build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, ensuring the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. The role sits within mainframe infrastructure engineering, covering z/OS hardware installation, configuration, cabling and design along with CPU, channel, FICON and SAN switch connectivity. Based out of Chennai, the position also involves incident management, automation, secure configuration and cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects and engineers.
What you will do
- Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
- Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
- Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
- Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
- Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
- Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
- Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
- Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
- They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
- Partner with other functions and business areas.
- Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
- Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
- Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to.
- Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
- Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
- Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
- Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
- Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
- Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Fundamental understanding of z/OS.
- Previous z/OS hardware installation, configuration, cabling & design experience.
- Good understanding of mainframe operating system tools: - TSO, JCL & Utilities, plus HMA, SANNAV and MVS commands etc.
- CPU, Channel, FICON configurations/installations.
- Connect & Switch - SAN Knowledge and configuration of Broadcom switches (port set up: Blocking/Un-Blocking, zoning etc).
- Previous IODF experience (HCD).
Preferred qualifications
- z/OS Technical Expertise.
- A good knowledge of MVS either from an operations or Support background.
- Previous Data Centre installations (environmental requests etc).
- HMA operation.
- HCD (IODF's).
- SANNAV.
- PPRC-XD.
- FICON cabling infrastructures.
- Floorspace management.
- Change management tools (ServiceFirst).
- Cross vendor DASD & Tape configurations/installations.
- PPRC connectivity.
- CPU, Channel & FICON configurations/installations.
- Connect & Switch SAN Knowledge (Brodcom X6/X7 switches etc).
- Server Time Protocol (STP).
- CTC Configurations.
- Previous experience in hardware installations, decommissions and Service moves would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of Teradata platforms would be desirable.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
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