Mainframe Modernization Specialist

This role offers an exciting opportunity to modernize your mainframe skills and contribute to the design, build, manage and modernization of mission-critical technology systems.

As a Mainframe Application Modernization professional, you will deliver value cases, proof of concept and MVP projects using iterative designs that mature into new technologies. Responsibilities include:

• Developing cloud value cases and business strategies with TCO models
• Analyzing technical requirements, planning and executing design and implementation work while meeting time, cost and quality targets
• Accounting for successful delivery of highly complex, multi-disciplined work-streams that deliver lasting and measurable value to clients
• Developing a point of view, capturing, prioritizing and analyzing technical (functional and non-functional) requirements
• Possessing strong leadership skills and furthering the evolution of intellectual capital assets and developing practice resources
• Assembling and leading a team of consultants with engagement management oversight
• Educating, mentoring and coaching teams in applying consulting techniques
• Facilitating and capturing lessons learned from engagements to update methodologies and assets
• Conducting consulting lunch and learns to disseminate knowledge
• Participating in the effort to expand service offerings
• Holding personal skills, objectives and learning plans to attain utilization KPIs
• Being a recognized technology leader inside and outside of our organization

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

• Fluent English
• Able to design and implement common Distributed, Mainframe, mid-range and hybrid-cloud value case, use cases and business cases
• Experience with Cloud Business Case, TCO, Value Case
• Familiarity with AWS blu age and Blu insights
• Google Cloud G4
• Cost optimization strategies for existing platforms and hybrid-cloud accounts
• Software modernization and language conversion experience like .Net, COBOL, Java, Python, RPG, etc…
• Experience with Micro-Focus, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, IDMS/Adabase, etc…
• Experience with data strategies like Hierarchical, VSAM to Relational, IMS to Db2, database replication, and data isolation
• Migration of existing workloads in-place, traditional mainframe, and hybrid-cloud platforms
• Experience in exposing application data to hybrid platforms; utilizing API's, microservices; etc…
• Comprehensive Platform Modernization strategies like; Modernize in-place, 'Wrap legacy', Micro-services, Event Driven and Cloud native development
• Networking between hybrid-platforms and the datacenter or other clouds
• DevSecOps and Automating operations
• Using custom or Third-Party DevOps Tools and Modern Engineering practices
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills
• Ability to communicate clearly in both written and verbal presentations
• Interpreting requirements and creating solutions
• Candidates should have or be on the path to obtain Associate Architect certification

The following skills are highly desirable:

• In-depth understanding of IT applications, workloads, and modern engineering methods such as containers, automation, and resiliency
• DevSecOps and CI/CD tooling (particularly in the context of cloud or containers)
• Broad knowledge of modern software engineering technologies including application requirements gathering, testing strategies, and remediation strategies
• Experience in the areas of IT and cloud technology architecture, automation, and resiliency
• Participating in detailed design sessions to outline implementation tasks
• Hands-on experience with key technologies
• Ability to articulate key technologies' impact on security, availability, cost, capacity
• Experience in Agile (Kanban, SAFe, and Scrum)
• Experience with various IT Operating Models and building organizations to deploy and support key technologies