Partnering to Solve Mainframe Skills Shortage

Broadcom’s Mainframe Vitality Program is an innovative skills development program to cultivate next-gen mainframe talent at low to no cost. Broadcom partners with organizations to attract, grow and retain talent to help manage the mainframe in the hybrid datacenter.

Meet the Mainframers of the Future

Hire, train and mentor new talent with Broadcom's Vitality program

Let Broadcom hire, train and mentor new talent to become part of your Mainframe team.

When faced with a lean mainframe staff, low budget and dozens of subsystems to manage, it is challenging to make time for training. In addition, key mainframe talent is retiring, and qualified replacements are not readily available.

Broadcom designed the Vitality Program to leverage our expertise and training assets in partnership with our customers to transfer product, technical, and industry knowledge together to cultivate new mainframe skilled resources.

How to Get Started

Meet the Mainframers of the Future

A Mainframer Paying it Forward

I can unashamedly say that my three primary motivators are learning, growth, and money. All three of which are abundant in the tech industry. So if there is one thing I know now, it’s that I really should have switched careers sooner. Hear from Jackson

How I Transition to a Career in Tech (Mainframe)

Transitioning to a new career or field is challenging, but think about it — what isn’t? Life itself is a challenge and what makes every day a unique one is the challenges we face in it. Hear from Nicole

How I Mindset Matters

April 2019, my interest in technology led me to start my journey at Launchcode in their LC101 class. The first day of class I told myself that I’ll complete this program no matter what and get a job in the technology field. There were tears of frustration and late nights but I was dedicated to understanding programming. Hear from Britaney

Parlez-vous Mainframe?

I have never considered myself an IT person. I don’t sit around with my friends debating which graphics card is the best. I’m not coding flashy new apps in my spare time. The only computer I’ve built was a machine that was going to be recycled, and all I did was replace the parts that were failing. So how did I get to where I am today? Hear from Katie

From Interviewing Pain to Mainframe Gain

And so it begins — another day in paradise. As I make my lengthy commute from my bedroom to my office I begin to wonder: “How did I end up here?” I didn’t mean the question to be one regarding the current remote work circumstances, but rather a check-up on how I ended up, for the first time, content in both my personal and professional life. Hear from David

How I Met Mainframe! Finding Mr. Big Iron

The Vitality Program team worked out a great plan for my journey at Broadcom, designed to grow and strengthen my knowledge of, and love for, the Mainframe. And wow, Mainframe and I feel lucky to have them as our Matchmakers! Join Malakeh's Cruise Experience

Journey to Becoming a Mainframer

Through Broadcom's investment, a Vitality Resident will embark on a multi-dimensional learning journey starting with training on mainframe fundamentals and Broadcom products, with experts mentoring them along the way. Next, they will partner on-site with the customer to learn their environment and unique business applications. Upon completion, the Resident is ready to start their career as a Mainframer.

Mainframe Foundations & Product Training

Introduction and practice of Mainframe operational language, utilities, concepts and Broadcom product training.

Mentoring

Fundamentals & Product Training

Partnering with technical experts to learn from and lean on.

On-site Residency

Fundamentals & Product Training

At no cost to you, the Resident joins your team to take direction from senior technicians to build knowledge about your environment.

Ready for Mainframe Career

Fundamentals & Product Training

After 4 to 6 months, the Resident is ready to join your team in pursuit of a mainframe career.

Mainframe Vitality Course Offerings

Open to both Broadcom Vitality Residents and customer employees

Mainframe Foundations

Prerequisite: None

A 6-week training on the foundational mainframe programming skills delivered in a blend of remote, instructor-led, web-based and self-paced accelerated learning path. The mainframe bootcamp is over 220 hours of training which includes multiple labs and exercises culminated with a capstone project. This course will cover the spectrum of mainframe processing, programming concepts and applications.

Associate Software Engineer Program

Prerequisite: Mainframe Fundamentals or equivalent experience

This 7-week program blends learning soft and technical skills. Soft skills are focused on self and teams collaboration, introducing Agile project management. Hands-on workshops enable residents to understand the environment where they will be working. Additional skills are learned by introducing Design Thinking and User Experience demonstrating how customer specific products are built.

Database Product Training

Product: Datacom, IDMS

Prerequisite: Mainframe Fundamentals, Blended Learning, or equivalent experience

The Vitality Resident will spend 6 weeks learning how to create database structures, maintain the environment and analyze system performance. Residents will gain intermediate knowledge and skills in an immersive hands-on experience learning curriculum.

Security Product Training

Product: ACF2, Top Secret

Prerequisite: Mainframe Fundamentals, Blended Learning or equivalent experience

The Vitality Resident will spend 6 weeks learning the product environment, how to perform configuration, as well as how to implement access control and setup security for member level protection, certificates and pass tickets. Residents will gain intermediate knowledge and skills in an immersive hands-on experience learning curriculum.

Automation Product Training

Product: OPS/MVS

Prerequisite: Mainframe Fundamentals, Blended Learning or equivalent experience

The Vitality Resident will spend 5 weeks getting trained on the OPS/MVS automation product. Residents will gain intermediate knowledge and skills in an immersive hands-on experience learning curriculum and once complete, be able to work in an OPS/MVS shop to develop automations.

DevOps Product Training

Product: Endevor

Prerequisite: Mainframe Fundamentals, Blended Learning or equivalent experience

The Vitality Resident will spend 6 weeks learning how to implement the software change management lifecycle and manage post-implementation operations. Residents will gain intermediate knowledge and skills in an immersive hands-on experience learning curriculum.

Mainframe Vitality Program Training Schedule

Location	Course	Dates	Duration
North America (Cohort 7)	Mainframe Foundations	January 2024	7 Weeks
	System Programmer Foundations	March 2024	5 Weeks
	Product Training	April 2024	4-6 Weeks
	Residency at Customer Location Begins	June 2024	3-6 Months
North America (Cohort 8)	Mainframe Foundations	July 2024	7 Weeks
	System Programmer Foundations	Sept 2024	5 Weeks
	Product Training	October 2024	4-6 Weeks
	Residency at Customer Location Begins	January 2025	3-6 Months
EMEA	Mainframe Foundations	August 2024	7 Weeks
	Product Training	October 2024	4-6 Weeks

To learn more about training in the Broadcom Mainframe Vitality program, please complete this form.

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