Director, Mainframe Systems Programming

🕒 June 4

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $155k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Ensono

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1001 - 5000 employees

Cloud Services • IT Services • Managed Services

Ensono is a managed service provider and expert technology advisor focused on enabling clients to navigate complex IT environments. Ensono offers services including mainframe-as-a-service, cloud migration, and IT infrastructure management, with a strong emphasis on modernizing legacy systems and optimizing IT operations. The company is recognized for its flexibility and allyship, providing businesses with the ability to adapt and evolve through solutions like Ensono Flex®. It specializes in both mainframe and cloud solutions, holding competency in AWS mainframe modernization and is a global Azure Expert MSP. Ensono acts as an ally, helping companies achieve better business outcomes through IT innovation and strategic technology advisement.

📋 Description

• Provide strong leadership and strategic direction to the functional organization, driving accountability, performance, and outcome-based delivery. • Operate effectively in ambiguous environments, setting clear direction, priorities, and execution frameworks for large-scale Mainframe teams. • Lead adoption of AI-driven operations, z/OSMF workflows, and Ansible for z/OS (z/Ansible) to enable automation-first delivery, improve resiliency, and accelerate upgrade and maintenance cycles. • Bring deep Mainframe technical expertise, including z/OS system programming, ISV Upgrades & Maintenances, RSU planning and implementation, ensuring platform stability and compliance. • Drive innovation by challenging traditional service models and embedding AI/ML and automation to continuously improve scalability, efficiency, and service quality. • Influence and inspire teams to consistently meet delivery commitments, fostering a culture of ownership, agility, and engineering excellence. • Communicate with clarity and impact—translating complex technical and operational topics into concise, actionable insights for leadership and clients. • Build trusted relationships across internal and external stakeholders, operating as a strategic service delivery partner. • Leverage systems, data, and metrics to drive decisions, track performance against benchmarks, and ensure measurable outcomes. • Maintain a strong balance of personal accountability, resilience, and agility in a dynamic environment. • Demonstrate high attention to detail with disciplined follow-through—creating a “trust but verify” culture across deliverables. • Define and drive completion of individual, departmental, and organizational goals aligned to clear KPIs and milestones. • Ensure audit readiness and compliance through strong governance, documentation, and control adherence across all engagements.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree. Relevant work experience will be considered in place of a bachelor’s degree. • Able to manage up, down and across organizations, clients and/or functions. • Strong in managing z/OS, ISV & Subsystem Upgrades via Traditional & Modern Approach • Experienced in diverse mainframe technical environments. Experienced in one or more mainframe infrastructure, hardware, system programming technologies. Alternative experiences must include high learning agility to acquire mainframe technology knowledge and apply previous experiences to achieve operational outcomes. • Possess communication skills to appropriately lead at the client/team/Business unit levels. • Experienced leading complex projects and programs. • Microsoft Office skills including Microsoft Project

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited Paid Days Off • Three health plan options • 401k with company match • Eligibility for dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D coverage, and flexible spending accounts • Family Forming Benefit including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement • Paid childbearing and paternal leave • Education Reimbursement, Student Loan Assistance or 529 College Funding • Sabbatical leave • Wellness program • Flexible work schedule