Job Description
XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd | Contract
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Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Australia | Posted on 10/06/2026
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City Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra
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Country Australia
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nAbout Us n
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AboutXPT
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XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in ****, is a Software Services company
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XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and
Manufacturingdomains.
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We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.
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XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.
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We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite-offshoreneeds.
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We require a highlyexperienced, hands-on
PL/I design and development consultant
toprovide technical leadership to the existing development team.
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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.
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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.
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nKeyresponsibilities
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Lead the technical analysis and detaileddesign of complex PL/I application changes.
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Establishpractical design and development approaches for the Phoenix solution.
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Undertakehands-on development of complex or high-risk PL/I components.
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Analyse largeand complex existing PL/I codebases, including online, batch and
integrationprocessing.
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Lead
complextroubleshooting,
root-cause analysis and performance-tuning activities.
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Reviewtechnical designs and code produced by the development team.
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Identifytechnical risks, design weaknesses and potential implementation issues.
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Workcollaboratively
with the development team to resolve complex
engineeringproblems.
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Supporttechnical estimation, development planning, testing, implementation andproduction-readiness activities.
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Providetechnical leadership while strengthening the team's PL/I capability throughpractical knowledge transfer.
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nMandatoryexperience
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Extensive commercial experience designing anddeveloping enterprise applications in
PL/I on IBM mainframe platforms
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A careerdepth typically associated with
20 or more years of relevant
mainframeapplication
experience
, preferably within banking, insurance or asimilarly complex regulated environment.
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Substantialhands-on involvement across solution design,



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