Mainframe Modernization Consultant

Worker Type:

Employee

At Ensono, our Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. These five traits are the key to achieving our purpose.

HONESTY, RELIABILITY, COLLABORATION, CURIOSITY, PASSION

Position Summary

Ensono’s Senior Technology Consultants are seasoned technologists focused on pushing forward technical innovation and transformation within the solution sets we provide. They work closely with our clients to understand their business drivers and objectives. Through collaboration with internal technologists, Senior Technology Consultants create solutions that drive value for our clients. They also provide client and industry feedback to Ensono’s internal teams, which allows Ensono to adjust our product and technology roadmaps. And finally, they are the lead architects delivering complex projects and programs for our clients.

The Senior Technology Consultant works alongside and supports Sales, Consulting and Client Success organizations to service our clients. They work with the clients’ business and technical teams to create reference architecture frameworks and templates. They lead the effort to execute multi-year transformation initiatives. To that end, Senior Technology Consultant must be effective in fostering executive level relationships with an emphasis on client satisfaction. Throughout the engagement process, from discovery to solution implementation, a Senior Technology Consultant must work with and at times lead multi-disciplinary teams. Ultimately, he/she remains the owner of the overall technical solution.

Key Areas of Focus for this Role

• Collaborate with counterparts in the Sales, Consulting and Delivery organizations to create Pursuit, Solution, Sales, and Delivery strategies for Enterprise clients

• Conduct discovery, assessment, and solution development workshops (often in collaboration with resources from consulting, operations, and product teams) to craft winning solutions

• Develop and document solutions that meet client’s (technical and business) requirements and allow them to adapt to changing industry needs with a focus on transformation and re-platform efforts

• Conduct solution development sessions and present technical solutions and business cases to a wide variety of audience

• Gain executive buy in for complex solutions by engaging in executive and senior-level technology discussions

• Work with finance and pricing teams to create simple pricing to complex multi-year financial models

• Gain clients’ confidence as a trusted advisor by offering consultation and recommendations drawn from insights, technology know-how and past experiences

• Align and partner with Product Management to help drive appropriate product enhancements and changes to technology roadmap

• Aid in driving stability and innovation within the client’s current and future state and create solutions based on client requirements and available product offerings

What the Ideal Candidate Brings to this Role

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer sciences

• Proven experience in managing projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing multi-phase/multi-dimensional/multi-resource projects to conclusion while maintaining high client satisfaction

• Knowledge of the hosting technology landscape including compute, storage, backup, network, security, DR, DevOps, and IT governance

• Good understanding of the sales process for large and complex opportunities including ITO

• Resourceful and confident in Crisis and Expectation management and confident under pressure

• Has experience in technical documentation to capture solution components in a timely manner while ensuring acceptable level of detail, data integrity, and accountability

• Ability to share knowledge and expertise among various organizations within the company and to facilitate teamwork among those organizations to better serve our clients

• Ability to work in a team environment and demonstrate strong problem-solving skills

• Proficient with common office applications such as MS Outlook, MS Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Visio

• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills (oral, written and presentation)

• Access database familiarity (create/export tables and queries; import text files into tables)

• Moderate SQL expertise

• Basic JCL concepts

• COBOL programming concepts

Other Qualifications

• Independent, Self-directed, Results oriented

• Advanced presentation & communication skills  

• Strong empathy, self-awareness, and interpersonal skills 

• Able to challenge status quo

• Understanding of (and experience with) public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and hybrid solutions

Why Ensono?

Ensono is a place we unleash Associates to Do Great Things – for our clients and for your career. This could mean achieving a professional goal, collaborating with your team on an innovative idea, learning a new skill, reaching a wellness milestone, or engaging in your community through volunteer programs. Whatever it means to you, we want Ensono to be the place where you can do great things.

• We value flexibility and work-life balance. Positions that are not required to be onsite to support a client may offer the ability to work remotely or hybrid at an Ensono office location.

• Unlimited Paid Day Off (PDO) Plan

• Two robust health plan options through Blue Cross Blue Shield

• 401(k) with a generous company match

• Eligibility for dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D coverage, and flexible spending accounts

• Depending on location, ability to take advantage of fitness centers

• Wellness program

• Flexible work schedule

Ensono is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to providing equal employment to our Associates and building a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Pay transparency nondiscrimination statement/posting OFCCP’s pay transparency policy can be found on OFCCP’s website.

If you need accommodation at any point during the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email [email protected]. 

Primary Location City/State:

Homebased - Downers Grove, IL - Finley, Illinois

Additional Locations (if applicable):

Ensono is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Ensono provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex, marital status, pregnancy, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, military status, or any other status protected by applicable law.