Senior Principal Lead Architect Engineer Workload Automation

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 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, including change windows, cutovers, and rollback planning.
• Familiarity with cloud patterns and automation (e.g., infrastructure‑as‑code concepts, container/VM scheduling considerations).

Additional Technical Requirements

• Hands‑on experience across ITSM processes (Incident, Problem, Change, Knowledge) in an enterprise environment.
• ServiceNow 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 company’s expectations.

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 (third‑party) job scheduling platforms; 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 productionize 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 (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 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 global operating model by working flexibly across EMEA and US business hours to provide required coverage and stakeholder overlap.
• Serve as escalation point for complex incidents; lead root‑cause analysis and drive problem management to prevent recurrence.
• Mentor and guide engineers; lead technical design reviews, documentation/run‑book standards, and knowledge sharing across the organization.
• Deep dive into other job scheduling teams like Automate, AS400 and Robot and assist in supervising these teams in IT Operations.

Salary & Benefits

• Salary Range: $110,000–$130,000 per year.
• Discretionary Annual Incentive.
• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
• Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Computer Science.