Senior Mainframe Technical Lead

Job Description:

Pay Range $60hr - $65hr

Responsibilities:

• To have working knowledge on Conducting Assessment & Develop the Deliverables.
• To be strong in analysis of AS-IS Legacy system irrespective of type of legacy technologies modules involved.
• Should be able to lead and manage the development/modernization team and guide them on Architectural Solutions & If Required be Hands On.
• To able to Develop any Prototype/Do any Proof of concept for complex solutions or scenarios as a part of the legacy Modernization Projects.
• Should be able to use various internal/external tools to baseline the legacy inventory.
• Should be able to visualize and suggest to-be solutions for each legacy technology.
• Should be able to depict different types of architecture – current State, target State, integration architecture.
• Should be able to arrive at estimation for ASIS legacy Solutions like Rewrite, Rehost, Retire, Replace Etc, & also arrive at Roadmap.
• Provide Thought Leadership & Solutions from Legacy Architecture Perspective as a part of consulting projects.
• To be able to do any R&D kind of work on the legacy side to provide POV & Recommendations.
• Exposure to Various Cloud platforms and able to suggest pros/cons of any solution suggested by Other Enterprise Architects.
• Candidate to have knowledge/experience in evaluating the products/ecosystem tools as part of the legacy modernization, identify the appropriate target replacement products by doing features/capabilities comparison, work with the concerned vendors for getting the quote, estimation.
• Candidate to have exposure in onboarding a new vendor for any third party usage – like NDA, MSA with the vendor.
• Should be able to review or prepare any sort of legacy modernization artifacts like technical design documents/architecture documents, etc, created by the team members.

Innovation/Automation Skills:

• Must be able to do proper requirements gathering for any Tool Initiatives.
• Must be able design or develop any required tools to expedite the legacy modernization consulting/execution projects.
• Must be able to evaluate & suggest any kind of third party tools related to legacy modernization work.
• Good communication, analytical and presentation skills, problem solving skills and learning attitude.
• Should have Good Client Handling Skills.

Experience:

• 10-15 years.

Nice To Have:

• Assembler - preferred but can be learned on the job if needed.

Skills:

• Datacom and Ideal Specialist, DB2, COBOL, Architecture Skills, Automation Skills, Solution Skills, Team Leadership Skills, Knowledge of Cloud Platforms.
• Scripting languages for tool development (innovation/automation) – REXX, Python Knowledge of various Cloud platforms & their technical aspects.
• Working Knowledge of modernization tools – Microfocus, HeirLoom, and TmaxSoft rehosting platforms.
• Able to troubleshoot the technical issues, and use the debugging tools like Xpediter, dump analysis.
• Good to have certifications of cloud platforms at solution architect level.
• Modernization Skills (Nice to Have) : Microfocus, HeirLoom, TmaxSoft etc.

Must Haves:

• IDEAL and COBOL.
• CA-Datacom and DB2.
• CICS.