Mainframe Modernization Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Helping Customers and Systems Integrators to design scalable, high availability application solutions built on the Rocket Enterprise Portfolio/Enterprise Server solution.

• Working as a technical leader alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams.

• Create Conduct proof of concept technology analysis and pilots.

• Conduct customer presentations and internal presentations/trainings to peer groups.

• Enable and align consulting partners with Rocket Enterprise Portfolio (Enterprise Server/Enterprise Developer/Enterprise Analyzer) mainframe modernization approach and methodology.

• Provide the architectural guidance and recommendations necessary to promote successful Customer engagements worldwide.

• Technical content composition and delivery: blogs, whitepapers, technical presentations at major conferences.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Advanced Technical Degree in Computer Science or related field

• At least 4 to 10 years of experience leading customers with mainframe and legacy modernization initiatives.

• Experience leading customers with mainframe and legacy modernization initiatives.

• Knowledge of major Cloud Provider infrastructure and technologies, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Foundry, Docker / Kubernetes.

• Experience with analyzing on-premises mainframe environment applications and process to formulate plans for modernizing workloads that achieve Customer’s desired business outcomes.

• Relevant Business and IT Architecture Certifications such as, AWS Solution Architect Professional, Microsoft AZURE Solution Architect, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), etc.

• Fluent in written and verbal English.

• Prior Experience in leading Customer migrations from Mainframe to Rocket Enterprise Server platform Technical Experience in at least one of these areas:

  • Infrastructure Modernization

    • Experience with tools and methodologies used to migrate mainframe workloads via hardware/middleware emulation, automated code conversion, and re-platforming.

    • Experience with COBOL modernization and porting application code across platforms.

    • Hands-on technical experience with mainframe, non-x86 legacy systems and with technologies such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2 for z/OS, IMS DB/DC, Assembler, PL/I, REXX, flat/sequential files, GDGs, and VSAM.

    • Must have an analytical mind set to analyze test result and facilitate defect resolution.

    • Experience design/architecting distributed and Cloud environments (target environments) – including OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Containers.

  • Application Modernization

    • Strong analysis skills with solid concepts in Architecture and Design. Should have joined projects to refactor complex business applications.

    • Knowledge of Cloud Computing, Containers, Microservices, and Serverless technology.

    • Experience with Business Rules-extraction from COBOL/PL1.

    • Experience architecting high availability, resilient, fault tolerant systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal/vertical scaling.

    • Knowledge of Webservices, Microservices, APIs and exposing Application components to alternate platforms.

  • Process Modernization

    • Complete understanding of software development lifecycle including DevOps toolchains.

    • Experience configuring automation pipelines in GitHub, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins or similar tools.

    • Familiarity with agile engineering practices like Test Automation, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, and Test Data Management, etc.

    • Experience with implementing and operating DevOps and Agile tools/platforms across some part of the development lifecycle.

• Ability and interest in travel to our customers around the world, as needed.

• Commitment to Rocket Core values of empathy, humanity, trust and love.

Information Security:

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