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IMS Mainframe Systems Programmer

📍 Location
knutsford
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
May 20, 2026

About the Role

Join us as an IMS Mainframe Systems Programmer at Barclays, where you’ll maintain and optimise IMS environments to ensure the performance, stability, and resilience of critical mainframe systems. You’ll support high‑availability operations, resolve multi‑faceted incidents, and collaborate with teams across the bank while contributing to ongoing modernisation and automation initiatives.

To be successful as a IMS Mainframe Systems Programmer, you should have:

  • Ample knowledge of IMS DB/DC, z/OS, JCL, system utilities, and mainframe infrastructure.
  • Ability to diagnose multi‑faced production issues, perform root‑cause analysis, and restore service quickly in a high‑availability environment.
  • Experience implementing changes safely, maintaining system stability, and ensuring performance, recovery, and operational resilience.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

  • Knowledge of Assembler with experience of suppor...

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