Control-M Batch Engineer - Consultant

Mission

• Design, maintain and optimize scheduling batch workflows for production and test environment (production, uat, …) for a leading banking environment
• Ensure high availability, performance, compliance, and security of end‑to‑end processing chains supporting payments, treasury, accounting, risk, and regulatory reporting.
• Deal with different projects at the same time liaising with different technical stakeholders
• Industrialize a multi-application billing chain with prerequisites, windows, and alerting.
• Migrate job estate to Control-M Automation API + GitOps workflow.
• Maintain and update Documentation

Key Responsibilities

• Design & Industrialization
  • Analyze business/IT needs and model workflows in Control-M (Jobs, Folders, Calendars, Conditions, Resources, Variables).
  • Apply scheduling standards (naming, reuse, conventions).
  • Automate job deployments via Control-M Application Integrator, CTM/CLI, and Automation API.
• Operations & Monitoring
  • Perform daily follow-up of batches, critical jobs, SLAs, and processing windows.
  • Handle production incidents (diagnosis, restart/recovery, escalation, RCA).
  • Optimize runtimes, parallelism, windows, and capacity.
• Integration & DevOps
  • Integrate Control-M with CI/CD (Automation API, CTM/CLI, Jenkins/GitLab CI, artifact repos).
  • Package and version Control-M objects (JSON, Git).
  • Document pipelines, recovery procedures, and runbooks.
• Security & Compliance
  • Comply, operate and leverage the Bank’s security framework and conforming to the published security applications RACI matrix provided to all stakeholders.
  • Manage access and roles (Control-M/EM, LDAP/AD).
  • Apply security policies (encryption, audit, traceability).
  • Contribute to audits, risk management, and continuity planning (DR/BCP).

Technical Environnent

• BMC Control-M: V9.21/9.22 Control-M/EM, Server, Agents, Workload Archiving, Automation API, CTM/CLI, Application Integrator, MFT/MFT-E
• Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows Server; z/OS knowledge a plus.
• Scripting & Languages: Shell/Bash, PowerShell, Python, SQL.
• Databases: PostgreSQL (queries, DB job scheduling).
• Middleware & Cloud: FTP/SFTP, REST/Web Services, MQ; AWS/Azure/GCP integration (Control-M for Cloud, Agents).
• CI/CD & SCM: Git, Jenkins/GitLab CI, JSON artifacts, automated testing/deployments.
• Monitoring: Integration with tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, Splunk, Centreon.
• Security: LDAP/AD, credential management (e.g., Vault, Control-M Secrets).

Required Skills

• Mastery of Control-M scheduling (design, conditions, calendars, resources, alerting).
• Hands-on with Automation API and CTM/CLI for “jobs as code”.
• Scripting for automation and remediation.
• Understanding of batch application architectures and production constraints.
• Incident and problem management , RCA writing and corrective actions.
• Clear communication with RUN, DEV, and business teams.

Profile

• Bachelor’s/ Master’s in computer science (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years’ experience with Control-M in production environments.
• BMC Control-M and/or ITIL certifications preferred.
• Fluent French/English required.

Soft Skills

• Rigor, service-oriented mindset, reliability in 24/7 contexts.
• Proactive, analytical, and problem-solving approach.
• Teamwork across Production, Development, and SecOps.
• Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing habits.

Work Conditions

• Possible on-call duty, and off-hours interventions based on criticality.
• Location: Geneva

Core Competencies : Adherence to the company’s values: Dedication, Conviction, Agility and Responsibility - Compliance with regulations and internal directives