Senior Specialist, Mainframe

Are you an expert-level Mainframe professional looking to excel in large-scale infrastructure projects in a critical financial environment? Do you thrive in managing vendor relations and ensuring rock-solid business continuity? Could you be the Senior Specialist who bridges the gap between our legacy core and modern cloud integrations?

We are now seeking a Senior Specialist, Mainframe (full-time, permanent position) for our DCC tribe's Infraops team in Helsinki or Oulu to coordinate, develop, and maintain OP Pohjola's critical mainframe environment together with our vendors.

A few words about the job

The core purpose of your role is to ensure a highly reliable and continuously evolving mainframe environment. You will act as the primary mainframe expert in OP's business projects, ensuring that our outsourcing vendors deliver high-quality and cost-effective services.

In your day-to-day work, your responsibilities include leading vendor work (such as performance management tracking and issue resolution), developing and maintaining the integration layer for cloud applications, and strongly supporting business continuity activities. You will also provide business as usual support to our Database team, concerning DB2 on the mainframe team.

You are joining us at an exciting and busy time. You will be a key player in multiple ongoing and upcoming high-profile projects, including Hyperswap, insurance separation, CBU, GDPS, restoration environment, Cybervault, BDC improvements, and our cloud integration layer. You will be working in the Infraops team within the DCC (Datacenter and Connectivity) tribe, a group of dedicated professionals where your deep technical expertise will be highly valued and put to good use.

At OP Pohjola we utilize a hybrid working model within Finland.

What we expect from you?

We are looking for a true senior professional. You have an analytical mindset, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage complex vendor ecosystems