Job Description

Lead PL/I Design & Development Consultant n

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- Circa. $650 per day including super
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- Location: Any Australian location
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- Working holiday visa holders and candidates without local experience are welcome to apply
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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.

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




- Extensive enterprise PL/I design and development experience on IBM mainframes.
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- Career depth typically associated with 20+ years in complex mainframe environments.
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- Solid experience across major PL/I development, migration, remediation or modernisation initiatives.
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- Deep practical knowledge of VSAM and IBM MQ.
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- Proven ability to safely modify large, complex legacy applications and resolve difficult online, batch, data and integration issues.
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- Hands‑on technical leadership, design assurance and code review experience.
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- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
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Desirable nn
- Db2, CICS and high‑volume transaction processing.
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- Banking, insurance or another regulated industry.
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- Complex financial calculations, batch processing, reconciliation or regulatory processing.
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- Legacy database migration and mainframe diagnostic tools.
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📌 Lead PL/I Design and Development Consultant (Sydney)
🏢 Whizdom
📍 Sydney