XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd | Contract

Lead PL/I Design & Development Consultant

Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Australia | Posted on 10/06/2026

- City Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra
- Country Australia

About Us

AboutXPT

- XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in 2016, is a Software Services company
- XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and Manufacturingdomains.
- We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.
- XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.
- We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite-offshoreneeds.

Job DescriptionLeadPL/I Design and Development Consultant

We require a highlyexperienced, hands-on PL/I design and development consultant toprovide technical leadership to the existing development team.

Teamcomprises experienced former COBOL developers who have approximately three tofour years’ experience developing and supporting the PL/I-based ManTecapplication. The consultant will complement the team by bringing substantialexperience from significant PL/I initiatives and deep expertise in complexapplication design, development, troubleshooting and performance tuning.

Thisis not a production support, routine maintenance or general developmentcapacity role. The consultant will lead complex technical analysis anddesign, work hands-on with the code, provide technical assurance, and helpthe existing team resolve the most demanding engineering challenges.

Keyresponsibilities





- Lead the technical analysis and detaileddesign of complex PL/I application changes.
- Establishpractical design and development approaches for the Phoenix solution.
- Undertakehands-on development of complex or high-risk PL/I components.
- Analyse largeand complex existing PL/I codebases, including online, batch and integrationprocessing.
- Lead complextroubleshooting, root-cause analysis and performance-tuning activities.
- Reviewtechnical designs and code produced by the development team.
- Identifytechnical risks, design weaknesses and potential implementation issues.
- Workcollaboratively with the development team to resolve complex engineeringproblems.
- Supporttechnical estimation, development planning, testing, implementation andproduction-readiness activities.
- Providetechnical leadership while strengthening the team’s PL/I capability throughpractical knowledge transfer.

Mandatoryexperience and capabilities
- Extensive commercial experience designing anddeveloping enterprise applications in PL/I on IBM mainframe platforms.
- A careerdepth typically associated with 20 or more years of relevant mainframeapplication experience, preferably within banking, insurance or asimilarly complex regulated environment.
- Substantialhands-on involvement across solution design,



detailed technical design,build, testing, implementation, troubleshooting and tuning.
- Deeptechnical knowledge of VSAM, including complex file structures, accesspatterns, performance, concurrency, integrity and recoverability.
- Deeppractical knowledge of IBM MQ, including application integration,message processing, exception handling, diagnostics and performance.
- Demonstratedability to understand and safely modify large, complex and potentially poorlydocumented legacy applications.
- Strongdiagnostic and problem-solving capability across online, batch, data-accessand integration processing.
- Experienceproviding hands-on technical leadership, design assurance and code reviewwithin an established development team.
- Ability towork effectively with experienced developers without duplicatingresponsibilities or operating purely as an adviser.
- Strongwritten and verbal communication skills, including the production of cleartechnical designs and implementation guidance.
- Valuable working knowledge of Db2,particularly for evaluating solution options or comparing Db2 and VSAMdata-access approaches.
- Experiencewith CICS and high-volume mainframe transaction-processing applications.
- Experiencewithin banking, insurance or another highly regulated industry.
- Experiencewith complex financial calculations, batch processing, reconciliation andregulatory processing.
- Experiencemigrating or restructuring PL/I applications to remove a legacy databasedependency.
- Familiaritywith mainframe performance-monitoring, debugging and diagnostic toolsets.

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