Mainframe Modernization SME

About the role

As an Application Architect specializing in Application Modernization, you will design and guide the transformation of legacy mainframe systems into modern, scalable, and cloud-native architectures. You will combine deep technical expertise with strategic vision to ensure that applications are restructured, replatformed, or refactored to align with current business needs and future growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead End-to-End Architecture: Design and guide the transformation of legacy systems into modern, scalable, and cloud-native architectures across cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud.
• Design Microservices and APIs: Create microservices, APIs, data models, and integration patterns that support modular, scalable, and maintainable applications.
• Define modernization strategies: Develop modernization strategy based on client pain points and outcomes.
• Guide AI Adoption: Collaborate with development teams to integrate generative AI technologies, such as Watson and Azure OpenAI, into modernized applications.
• Ensure Testing Governance: Develop and implement robust testing governance and performance optimization throughout the modernization lifecycle.

Requirements

• Deep Expertise in Cloud-Native Architecture: Experience with designing and guiding the transformation of legacy systems into modern, scalable, and cloud-native architectures across cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud.
• Microservices and API Design Expertise: Experience with creating microservices, APIs, data models, and integration patterns that support modular, scalable, and maintainable applications.
• Containerization Strategy Development: Experience with developing containerization and orchestration strategies using Docker and Kubernetes to ensure secure, resilient, and compliant systems.
• Generative AI Technology Integration: Experience with integrating generative AI technologies, such as Watson and Azure OpenAI, into modernized applications.
• Testing Governance and Performance Optimization: Experience with developing and implementing robust testing governance and performance optimization throughout the modernization lifecycle.
• Must possess and have the ability to maintain DoD Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Mainframe Z: Knowledge of legacy system integration, including Mainframe Z, is beneficial for hybrid cloud deployments and data migration.
• Exposure to ICA Tools: Experience with IBM Cloud Automation (ICA) tools can aid in developing modernization roadmaps and streamlining the application modernization process.
• Understanding of AMM Methodology: Familiarity with the Application Modernization Method (AMM) can facilitate the creation of effective modernization roadmaps and strategies.

Preferred Education: Bachelor's Degree