Mainframe Modernization SME

IBM Consulting offers a career built on long-term client relationships and global collaboration. You’ll partner with leading companies across industries to shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys, leveraging IBM technology, Red Hat, and strategic partnerships. The culture encourages curiosity, challenges norms, and values unique skills while fostering long-term career growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture design, transforming legacy mainframe systems into modern, scalable, and cloud-native architectures across AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud.
• Design microservices, APIs, data models, and integration patterns to support modular, scalable, and maintainable applications.
• Define modernization strategies based on client pain points and desired outcomes.
• Guide AI adoption by collaborating with development teams to integrate generative AI technologies, such as Watson and Azure OpenAI, into modernized applications.
• Ensure robust testing governance and performance optimization throughout the modernization lifecycle.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, including designing and guiding legacy system transformations across AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud.
• Experience creating microservices, APIs, data models, and integration patterns for scalable, maintainable applications.
• Proficiency in developing containerization and orchestration strategies using Docker and Kubernetes for secure, resilient, and compliant systems.
• Experience integrating generative AI technologies, such as Watson and Azure OpenAI, into modernized applications.
• Experience developing and implementing testing governance and performance optimization throughout modernization projects.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Mainframe Z for hybrid cloud deployments and data migration.
• Experience with IBM Cloud Automation (ICA) tools to streamline modernization roadmaps.
• Understanding of the Application Modernization Method (AMM) for effective strategy development.