Operations Technical Consultant

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.  Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.  We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.  Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. 

Summary of This Role

Provides monitoring and 1st Level Support for Business Critical Services ensuring that Service Standards are maintained and quality service provided. Performs and supports operational processes across multiple environments ensuring all tasks are managed and conducted to the highest possible standards; this includes but is not limited to producing supporting documentation. Ensures that all activities are performed and supported in accordance with Corporate Governance and agreed processes and procedures.

What Part Will You Play?

• Ensures continuous service reviews take place, generate ideas for improvements and implement when appropriate.
• Respond to unusually complex issues and see through resolution.
• Undertake highly complex batch processing taking place, across specified systems in accordance with defined processes. Including loading client originated files and direct client communication.
• Undertake highly complex batch processing across specified systems in accordance with defined processes. Including loading client originated files and direct client communication.
• Monitor and ensure timely delivery of highly complex client service level agreements & Non service level agreement transmissions from Global Payments, following batch processing across all platforms for Production and Verification schedules using Connect Direct, Network Data Mover and other transmission tools.
• Provide expert technical assistance during client impacting highly complex issues.

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree; Relevant Experience or Degree in: Information Technology or Business related study; relevant experience in lieu of education
• Typically Minimum 6 Years Relevant Exp
• Information Technology Field and/ or Bankcard Industry

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong Knowledge of Mainframe Operating system (IBM Z OS)
• Experience with JCL(job Control Language)
• Familiarity in incident management tools.
• Understanding of SFTP protocols.
• 9 Years Relevant Exp
• Operations experience with CA7, Mainframe JCL,SDSF,RMF, BMC or IBM suite of products.
• Willingness to work in shifts 24/7

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?

• Monitor and Execute batch jobs as per schedules using tools CA7 and Control M.
• Ensure jobs complete successfully and resolve issues promptly to maintain uptime.
• Good understanding of IPL
• Have worked on SDSF and has good knowledge on working on init structure to maintain a better flow of batch jobs.
• Have worked on RMF to understand the delays and manipulate the resource utilization.
• Ensure DR plans are in place tested and aligned with business continuity requirements.
• Has worked on report generation for the entire month from logs and create meaningful insights.
• Identify and troubleshoot batch failure or system errors.
• Escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate team while ensuring timely resolution.
• Perform routine checks to ensure the health and stability of mainframe system.
• Monitor system performance and resource utilization.
• Maintain up to date documentation for standard operating procedures (SOP)and batch process.
• Generate and share periodic status report with stakeholders.
• Continuously identify areas for improvement in batch processing environment.
• Work closely with application teams, infrastructure teams and business units to enhance mainframe processing and job scheduling.
• Knowledge of automation tools and scripting ( ex REXX, CLIST, JCL modification).

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