CareerPlan

Lead PL/I Design and Development Consultant

Sydney, New South WalesRemoteFull-time$169k2026-10-12 → 2026-11-12

Core

Lead complex design and development of PL/I applications for a major database migration in a financial services organization.

Role type

Senior IC mainframe PL/I consultant

Builds

High-risk PL/I components and legacy application modernizations

Domain

Financial services, mainframe legacy systems

Required skills

PL/I design and development, IBM mainframe environments, VSAM, IBM MQ, technical analysis, detailed design, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, code review, legacy application modification

Preferred skills

Db2, CICS, high-volume transaction processing, banking/insurance domain knowledge, complex financial calculations, legacy database migration tools

Technologies

PL/I, IBM mainframe, VSAM, IBM MQ, Db2, CICS

Responsibilities

Lead technical analysis and detailed design for complex PL/I application changes; Develop high-risk PL/I components and analyse large online, batch and integration codebases; Lead troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and performance tuning; Review designs and code, identify technical risks, and support testing and implementation readiness; Provide hands-on technical leadership and practical knowledge transfer to the development team.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC