Mainframe Top Secret (TSS) Senior Consultant - EMEA (location tbc)

Basic Information

Country

United Kingdom

State

NA

Date Published

14-Mar-2023

Job ID

36657

Travel Amount

up to 10%
This role can be based remotely in United Kingdom

Description and Requirements

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Every BMC employee has the potential to have a tremendous impact on customer success—and when customers thrive, we all do.

BMC offers bold and fearless career-seekers like you the opportunity to expand your skills, your network, and your horizons as you work to enable customer growth and innovation every day. You will be surrounded by peers who inspire you, drive you, support you, and make you laugh out loud, in an environment that fosters individuality, respect, and personal ambition.

Mainframe Top Secret (TSS) Senior Consultant

Description and Requirements

BMC Mainframe Services (BMS) has an exciting opportunity to grow our team with the opening of a Broadcom CA TSS Senior Consultant.  We are forecasting BMS to be the largest Services unit within BMC and are looking for the right people to help develop and grow our European-based practice.

The BMC TSS Senior Consultant provides leadership on technical delivery engagements by implementing\delivering mainframe infrastructure projects and contributing to Architectural Technical Design.

A Senior Consultant works closely with the Practice Lead (PL) and Project Management (PM) team to meet the approved Customer requirements.  The Senior Consultant performs the technical hands-to keyboard software and configuration changes on customer systems. The Senior Consultant translates logical design into physical designs, contributes to detailed design documentation, and contributes to the development of procedures and standards within BMS.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Works interactively with all project staff, both BMC internal and Customer.
  • Performs complex analysis of customer projects based upon the SOW and delivery deadlines. Ensures the customer is prepared and ready for agreed start dates and that all environments are ready for project implementation
  • Performs and coordinates the Install, Configuration, Migration, and Implementation activities of security projects, adhering to customer software delivery life cycle, all change controls, and blackout periods
  • Security Assessments and Penetration Tests in customer environments.
  • Contributes to Customer ready design documentation to support all Functional requirements, Technical Solution Design, Test Strategy, and Deployment Plans
  • Advises on updates to the Project or Service Schedule to the PM, PL, Solutions Architect or Service Delivery Manager
  • Recognizes customer requests that fall outside the scope of the SOW or any new opportunities and brings it to the attention of the PM/PL for further review.
  • Successfully moves Customer into production on the target BMC solution, transitioning the project to closure with both the customer and BMC teams.
Mandatory Experience:
  • 10+ relevant years mainframe technical experience as a TSS security practitioner or z/OS Systems Programmer utilizing TSS:
    • 3+ years working in Services or projects, preferably Customer facing in a professional consultative capacity
    • Systems programming skills and experience recognising security exposures and configuration issues.
  • A self-starter, willing to work without a net with a proven ability to meet assigned timelines with high quality, complete deliverables in unsupervised, often remote, situations.
  • Willingness to mentor and share ideas and knowledge with other colleagues promoting best practices.
  • Demonstrable experience in deployment lifecycle across multiple environments (Test, Dev, QA, and Production).
  • Demonstrated success in building key relationships in the past with Sales, Technical Support, Application Teams, and Product Engineering.
Desirable Experience:
  • z/OS Operating System and Program Product installs, SYSPLEX, system configurations, upgrades, user mods/exits, in large complex environments. Strong experience with SMP/E, testing and deployment strategies, problem determination and resolution.
  • Experience with other mainframe security products such as RACF or Broadcom CA ACF2
  • Strong experience with install and configuration of OEM software products, BMC, IBM and CA-Broadcom products
Strengths: 
  • Great Communicator, Problem Solving, Coaching / Mentoring
  • Professional Behaviours: 
  • Technical Solution Expert, Change Champion, Self-Starter, Strong Leadership, Influencer
 

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Min salary

54,525

Max salary

90,875