Director, Mainframe Innovation Engineering

As a seasoned leader with deep expertise in the IBM Z platform, you are passionate about driving innovation and operational excellence in mainframe technology. Your leadership amplifies your technical acumen, enabling you to guide and inspire multiple engineering teams while remaining a hands-on practitioner who actively designs, builds, and reviews engineering solutions engaged with the evolution of mainframe solutions that power mission-critical enterprise operations. 

This role is focused on product engineering and platform capability development, not on day-to-day operational service delivery, SLA ownership, or incident management. 

In this director role, you will be accountable for shaping and executing the strategy to deliver foundational, productized mainframe solutions that enable scale and differentiation for our operations and digital teams. You will oversee the development of critical APIs, developer tools, and data-driven insights that are essential to our clients’ success, with success measured by adoption, reuse, and impact across multiple customers rather than operational efficiency metrics alone, while ensuring the creation of intellectual property that strengthens our position as a leading managed services provider. 

You will collaborate closely with Product Management, business stakeholders, Operations, and external partners to align engineering execution with the overall product vision, roadmap, and business priorities. Reporting directly to the SVP of Products, you will provide architectural leadership, drive technology selection, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions that are operationally ready for handoff to service delivery teams but not owned by this role in steady-state operations. 

 

 ## Key Responsibilities: 

• Provide strategic direction and inspiration for multiple engineering teams developing mainframe-centric solutions that leverage both legacy and modern infrastructure, integrating with non-mainframe technologies as needed, while personally remaining involved in key design decisions, code reviews, and architectural implementation. 

• Stay at the forefront of mainframe and connected technology trends, identifying opportunities for innovation, optimization, and competitive differentiation&nbs