Lead PL/I Design & Development Consultant
Circa. $650 per day including super
Location: Any Australian location
Working holiday visa holders and candidates without local experience are welcome to apply

We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on PL/I consultant to support a major database migration for a financial services organisation. You will lead complex design and development work, provide technical assurance, and help an established team solve demanding engineering challenges.

Key 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.

Essential experience




Extensive enterprise PL/I design and development experience on IBM mainframes.
Career depth typically associated with 20+ years in complex mainframe environments.
Robust experience across major PL/I development, migration, remediation or modernisation initiatives.
Deep practical knowledge of VSAM and IBM MQ.
Proven ability to safely modify large, complex legacy applications and resolve difficult online, batch, data and integration issues.
Hands-on technical leadership, design assurance and code review experience.
Solid written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable
Db2, CICS and high-volume transaction processing.
Banking, insurance or another regulated industry.
Complex financial calculations, batch processing, reconciliation or regulatory processing.
Legacy database migration and mainframe diagnostic tools.

Apply now to bring your PL/I expertise to a technically significant migration program.

📌 Lead Pl/i Design And Development Consultant Sydney (Australia)
🏢 Whizdom Recruitment
📍 Australia