Mainframe Workload Automation Analyst

Accenture•Mississauga, ON

6d•CA$60,350 - CA$110,350•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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 24x7 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.
Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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).