Mainframe Architect

Job Description
We are looking for hands on Architects who are passionate about:
• Thought Leadership with extensive knowledge in legacy modernization techniques related tools and approaches.
• Understanding of z/OS, AS400 platforms and categorize workloads for migration
• Experience leading customers with mainframe and legacy modernization initiatives.
• General knowledge on assessment techniques to derive the modernization solution for legacy customers
• Hands on experience with CAST highlight and CAST imaging software
• Experience in extracting business rules from mainframe programming languages like COBOL, PL1, Natural etc.
• Knowledge on Micofocus and Heirloom products used for discovery, migration/modernization
• Designing AWS or Azure or GCP or Openshift architectures which meet or exceed the requirements of workloads coming from mainframe and legacy infrastructures.
• Architecting, developing and modernizing customer applications/systems to be cloud or on-premise platform ready
• Working as a technical leader alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams.
• Agile software development and DevOps.
• Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment.
• 10+ years of hands-on technical experience with mainframe, non-x86 legacy systems and with technologies such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2 for z/OS, Assembler, PL/I, Java, Rexx, flat/sequential files, GDGs, and VSAM.
• 10+ years of experience designing architectures for enterprise systems.
• 5+ years of experience in a technical lead role migrating workloads from mainframe and non-x86 legacy systems to distributed x86 infrastructures on-premises or in the Cloud;
• 5+ years of experience integrating mainframe and non-x86 legacy systems with distributed Linux-based or Windows-based x86 servers.
• Experience with tools and methodologies used to migrate mainframe workloads via re-platforming or rewrite
• Experience with analyzing on-prem mainframe applications and data stores to formulate plans for modernizing workloads that achieve customer’s desired business outcomes.
• Current hands-on implementation experience.
• Experience with zD&T, Microfocus and data conversion tools.
• Experience with COBOL modernization and porting application code across platforms.
• Experience with proprietary legacy data store migration to relational databases.
• Experience with legacy systems data replication or messaging.
• Knowledge on designing Mongo DB, Bigframe or any datalake solutions is an added advantage.