Enterprise Job Scheduling Platform Engineer

Job Description

Job Purpose:

We are seeking an experienced and driven Enterprise Job Scheduling Platform Engineer to support the engineering, governance, and continuous improvement of Enterprise Job Scheduling Platform Services. The role is responsible for ensuring that enterprise scheduling platforms are reliable, resilient, secure, and operated in accordance with established technology and operational standards.

You will play a key role in managing scheduler infrastructure and configurations, strengthening platform governance, supporting workload onboarding and migration, and partnering with internal stakeholders to deliver consistent and effective scheduling services across the enterprise.

Job description

• Manage enterprise scheduling platform engineering: Provide engineering ownership for enterprise scheduling platforms and their supporting components, including scheduler master servers, agents, database repositories, authentication and security integrations, high availability configurations, and related infrastructure.

• Own platform lifecycle, availability and resiliency: Plan and execute platform installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, capacity management, high availability, disaster recovery, and lifecycle activities. Ensure scheduling services are designed and maintained to support operational resilience and critical business workloads.

• Drive standardisation and operational excellence: Develop, implement, and maintain enterprise scheduling standards, procedures, and engineering practices within the organisation. Drive consistency across environments and improve platform reliability, supportability, and efficiency through automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

• Support workload onboarding and platform transformation: Partner with application owners and production support teams to onboard, migrate, and integrate workloads onto enterprise scheduling platforms. Contribute to platform modernisation and migration initiatives while ensuring appropriate planning, validation, control, and service continuity.

• Strengthen security, risk and regulatory compliance: Ensure scheduling platforms comply with internal policies, regulatory requirements, security standards, and audit expectations. Identify platform risks and vulnerabilities, coordinate remediation activities, and support risk acceptance processes where remediation cannot be completed within the required timeline.

• Govern processes and change implementation: Maintain standard operating procedures and process controls for enterprise scheduling services. Work closely with Change Management and Infrastructure teams to ensure platform changes are assessed, approved, implemented, validated, and documented in a controlled manner.

• Provide technical support and stakeholder engagement: Provide technical guidance and support for complex scheduling, infrastructure, configuration, and integration issues. Work effectively with application owners, production support teams, Change Management, Infrastructure, and senior management stakeholders to resolve issues and deliver service improvements.
  

  Qualification Requirement

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

  • Minimum 5 years of experience in enterprise job scheduling, workload automation, platform engineering, or related infrastructure services within a large-scale enterprise environment.

  • Experience supporting mission-critical production services and platforms with high availability, resiliency, security, and regulatory requirements.

  • Experience in one or more enterprise workload automation or job scheduling platforms is advantageous (e.g., Control-M, HCL Workload Automation, Automic Automation, or equivalent).

  Working experience/ Skills

  • Strong technical knowledge of enterprise job scheduling and workload automation platforms, including scheduler master servers, agents, database repositories, authentication integrations, and high availability architectures.

  • Hands-on experience in platform installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, disaster recovery, lifecycle management, and troubleshooting.

  • Good working knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems, databases, networking, security controls, certificates, and automation or scripting technologies.

  • Experience in workload onboarding, scheduling design, application integration, platform migration, and production implementation activities.

  • Experience supporting regulatory compliance, audit requirements, process governance, platform risk management, vulnerability remediation, and risk acceptance activities.

  • Proven ability to establish and maintain technical standards, operating procedures, controls, metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives for enterprise services.

  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to manage complex platform incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.

  • Ability to balance technical engineering responsibilities with service management, governance, planning, and stakeholder coordination.

  • Ability to cope with reasonably high levels of operational demand and demonstrate resiliency, initiative, accountability, and professional integrity.

  • Team player with excellent consultative and communication skills, and the proven ability to work effectively with application owners, production support teams, Change Management, Infrastructure, vendors, and senior management stakeholders.