Mainframe capacity planning director jersey City Tampa FL

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Mainframe capacity planning director jersey City tampa

 Experience level: Mid-senior Experience required: 8 Years Education level: Bachelor’s degree Job function: Information Technology Industry: Financial Services Compensation: $121,000 - $130,000 Total position: 1 Relocation assistance: No

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Principal Capacity Planning Engineer for Mainframe works directly with a team responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting mainframe processing capacity 

The successful candidate will collect system resource data along with business volume data for analysis using sound data science principles.

The Principal Capacity Planning Engineer is skilled in which types of data are used in Capacity Planning, as well as the sources and tools used to collect, validate, and then process required data.

A solid background in both descriptive and inferential statistics is imperative to extrapolate insight from large quantities of raw data using SAS software on the mainframe and in distributed environments.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Monthly Mainframe Capacity Report including

Measurement of system resources usage for all LPARs

Usage Trends, Top-N lists, Peak Profiles, Threshold Exception, etc.

Prepare and Present Monthly Mainframe Capacity Planning Review meeting documents.

Annual Mainframe Capacity Report

Resource usage by Application System ID

Collection and reporting of business volume data from multifaceted sources

Resource Forecasting and monthly review of forecasts to actuals

Risk assessments of utmost market conditions for selected business streams

Consultations with Capacity Stress Test team (includes reviews of their reporting)

Produce/update a Business Process Requirements document for selected business stream.

Correlation Analysis, Business volume to System Resources

Pattern Recognition / Detection of outliers

Linear / Logistic Regression, ARIMA forecasts, integrating projections with forecast data.

Quarterly report generation for the IT Governance Committee

Produce documentation, test results as requested by the Model Validation Committee

Policy procedure documentation with supporting evidence for regulatory, audit bodies

Ensure the successful daily processing / reporting of 30 different MICS units split by LPAR and work type.

Examples: SMF/RMF component, CICS, DB2, MQ, mainframe web logs

Apply MICS maintenance to support new processors, z/OS operating systems and general updates.

Ensure the successful daily processing of multiple processing streams split by LPAR and work type.

Resolve CPU and Storage usage by application system ID.

Monthly delivery of daily data to for chargeback processing and reporting

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum of 8 years of related experience

Bachelor's degree in mathematics/statistics subject area preferred or equivalent experience.

Expertise in mainframe technology and components (CECs, LPARs, JCL, automated scheduling software)

Expertise in analysis of mainframe capacity / performance data (SMF, RMF, CICS, DB2, MQ)

Excellent analytical skills including data exploration, analysis, and production of models.

MICS experience required.

SAS experience required.

HTML, JSON experience is highly desirable.

Strong MS Office skills, in particular sophisticated PowerPoint, and Excel skills

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